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WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 

THE   SCIENCE   OF   LETTERS   AND 
NUMBERS 


BY 
CLIFFORD  W.   CHEASLEY 

Author  of  "  Numerology,"  etc. 


New  York 
Edward  J.  Clode 

Publisher 


COPTBIGHT,  1916,  BT 

BDWAKD    J.    CLODS 


CONTENTS 

CHAPTEE 

I.   VIBRATION  AND  LIFE      .       .  1 

II.   THE  NUMBERS 9 

III.  WHAT  THE  NAME  MEANS      .  18 

IV.  CONSTRUCTION    OR    DESTRUC- 

TION       .       .               .       .  24 

V.    NUMBERS  IN  ACTION       .       .  31 

VI.    NEGATIVE  ACTION     ...  46 

VII.   WHAT  THE  BIRTH  DATE  IN- 
DICATES        .       .       .     .  ,  53 

VIII.   CHANGING  THE  NAME     .       .  61 

IX.   HARMONIOUS  ASSOCIATION      .  69 

X.    CHOOSING  A  LIFE'S  WORK      .  76 

XI.   WHAT  AND  How      .       »       .  84 

XII.    COMPLETE  ADJUSTMENT  .       .  90 

XIII.   WHERE  AND  TO  WHOM  .       .  96 

XIV.    CONCLUSION  103 


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CHAPTER  I 
VIBRATION  AND  LIFE 

LIFE  and  Vibration  are  synonymous  terms 
— to  interpret  the  latter  is  to  comprehend 
the  former. 

To  study  the  practical  interpretation  of 
vibration  is  to  know  the  way  of  life,  to  un- 
fold completely  the  mystery  of  the  Self  and 
to  recognize  how  inter-related  we  humans 
are  with  every  other  plane  of  life  that 
exists. 

To  possess  this  knowledge  is  becoming 
the  object  of  all  thinking  people  who 
realize  that  as  the  vibratory  rate  of  our 
Universe  increases,  its  inhabitants  will  nat- 
urally seek  wisdom  by  which  they  may  in- 
clude life's  lessons  by  the  more  rapid  way 
of  transmutation  instead  of  the  long,  tire- 
some path  of  experience. 

The  majority  of  the  world,  of  course,  still 
lives  unconsciously,  faces  its  initiations  in 
ignorance  of  them  and  of  itself,  depending 


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upon  intuitional  faculties  and  spiritual 
guidance  which  its  mentality  cannot  easily 
accept  or  prove,  to  make  the  pathway  easier. 

This  majority  is  becoming  less  year  by 
year,  for  many  individuals,  having  discov- 
ered that  life  in  its  fundamental  principle 
is  divine  law  or  God — order — are  finding 
their  place  in  the  scheme  of  things  and  work- 
ing from  within  outward,  are  learning  the 
life  of  order  and  expression  rather  than  of 
chaos  and  repression. 

Life  thus  understood  is  simple,  but  mis- 
understood is  a  serious  accident. 

Daily,  men  and  women  risk  honor,  home, 
position  and  happiness  upon  an  intuition 
or  sometimes  an  impulse  which  they  would 
be  ashamed  to  follow  in  the  management  of 
their  everyday  life,  their  offices  or  their 
households. 

In  the  latter  expressions  they  have  learned 
to  be  systematic  by  application  of  the  law 
of  mathematical  precision,  but  in  the  former, 
where  sentiment  and  the  deeper  human  asso- 
ciations may  be  involved,  they  have  only 
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VIBRATION  AND  LIFE 


worm-eaten  platitudes  and  Universal  stand- 
ards of  right  and  wrong  upon  which  to  rely 
which  never  have  and  never  will  convince  or 
corner  that  "  I  am "  quality  within  us  all 
which  seeks  for  expression  through  our 
action,  even  though  the  results  warned 
against  may  really  come  to  pass. 

Living  in  the  material  Universe  and  ex- 
pressing our  vibrations  or  life  through  the 
physical,  it  is  only  through  a  physical  dem- 
onstration of  the  truth  of  being  that  the 
mass  mind  will  comprehend  the  manipula- 
tion of  the  more  subjective  laws  of  right 
and  wrong. 

It  is  this  physical  demonstration  that 
Numerology  supplies  by  its  use  of  numbers 
in  relation  with  everyday  life. 

The  numbers  themselves  tell  nothing, 
but  there  has  always  been  grouped  around 
them  a  great  deal  of  esoteric  wisdom,  and 
many  centuries  before  Christ  they  were 
used  by  the  Masters  and  teachers  of  the  race 
as  physical  demonstrators  of  hidden  vital 
truth. 

[3] 


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"  Figures  do  not  lie."  One  numerical 
equation  is  more  convincing  than  one  thou- 
sand words  of  advice  which  are  often  for- 
gotten as  quickly  as  the  personality  of 
their  author;  and  a  science  that  reduces  hu- 
man impulses,  desires  and  actions  to  cer- 
tain equations  which  mean  the  same  thing 
wherever  found  does  not  lie,  but  voices 
eternal  truth  in  language  that  even  the 
most  skeptical,  willful  individualist  will  ac- 
cept because  he  must. 

Does  such  understanding  take  the  ro- 
mance from  life?  Not  in  any  way!  It 
opens  up  instead  new  anticipations  and  cer- 
tainties of  happiness  where  often  doubt  and 
ignorance  resulting  in  fear  and  worry  have 
existed;  it  prolongs  the  helpful  associa- 
tions of  the  present;  awakens  the  Universal 
soul  of  man  by  linking  him  in  understand- 
ing with  all  other  planes  of  life  and  draws 
his  mind  from  the  danger  of  immersion 
in  the  smaller  personalities  of  the  moment. 

Numerology  uses  nine  numerals,  simply 
and  directly  to  reveal  to  the  many  this 
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wisdom  which  has  been  the  possession  of 
the  few  since  the  human  race  began,  and 
that  has  enabled  these  few  to  transcend 
the  limitation  of  human  living  through  the 
understanding  of  man's  relationship  and 
adjustment  with  and  to  God — Life — Vibra- 
tion, which  is  in  all  and  through  all. 

Each  plane  of  earthly  expression  has  its 
distinct  laws  of  evolution  which  have  to  be 
experienced  and  expressed  by  its  units  be- 
fore they  can  appear  on  a  higher  plane  of 
expression,  just  as  the  pupil  passes  from 
the  lowest  to  the  highest  form  at  school. 

Man  is  this  highest  form  of  vibration  in 
the  earth  currents  and  has  included  in  his 
journey  from  the  atomic  to  the  human 
kingdom  all  the  vibratory  zones  of  the  min- 
eral, vegetable  and  animal,  as  witnessed  by 
man's  positive  control  of  these  planes  and 
his  power  to  subject  their  laws  to  his  will. 

In  the  human  vibrations  there  are  many 
divisions  through  which  we  all  pass  and 
repass  toward  that  stage  where  we  can  be 
removed  from  earth  and  express  in  angelic 

[5] 


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consciousness  to  meet  again  a  new  vibra- 
tory law. 

In  our  journey  from  the  first  stages  of 
human  unfoldment  we  have  lived  many 
lives  in  various  colors  and  conditions  and 
'every  condition  of  every  life  which  we  have 
passed  through  has  been  created  by  our- 
selves as  the  result  of  understanding  in- 
cluded previously,  just  as  we  recognize 
and  handle  the  situations  which  come  up 
in  our  present  life  and  of  which  we  have 
had  previous  experience. 

The  result  of  our  contact  with  these 
conditions  has  been  included  in  our  soul- 
wisdom  and  been  rated  as  a  finished  initia- 
tion in  our  cosmic  record — our  baptismal 
name. 

It  is  always  the  most  interesting  to  study 
ourselves  and  this  work  will  be  mainly  de- 
voted to  this  phase  of  Numerology,  ex- 
plaining why  we  do  certain  things,  why  we 
neglect  others,  why  certain  expressions 
appeal  to  us,  why  others  do  not,  our  real 
purpose  in  life  and  many  other  things  that 
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can  increase  our  happiness  and  useful- 
ness, 

It  must  not  be  overlooked  however  that 
this  study  can  and  does  teach  us  to  reveal 
accurately  the  expression  of  everything 
that  exists. 

To  the  younger  generation  Numerology 
supplies  a  need  which  has  been  prayed  for 
by  all  it»  educators  for  many  years,  who 
have  found  that  their  chief  difficulty  has 
been  that  the  young,  inexperienced  minds 
on  the  edge  of  life  will  not  accept  for  their 
own  guides  well  meaning  words  spoken 
from  experience  of  another  person.  Fresh 
from  their  education,  the  study  of  mathe- 
matics and  from  the  consideration  of  the 
definite  proofs  which  they  offer,  they  do 
not  consider  it  ridiculous  or  impossible  to 
have  their  own  nature  numbered  and  tabbed 
and  numbered  sign-posts  of  danger  pointed 
out  to  them  along  the  road  they  are  to 
travel,  because  it  is  language  they  under- 
stand. 

To  those  who  are  well  along  life's  path- 
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way  Numerology  comes  as  a  healing  in- 
fluence of  revelation,  answering  the  many 
whys  and  wherefores,  turning  the  inter- 
rogation marks  of  uncertainty  into  ex- 
clamation points  of  certainty  and  con- 
viction. 

It  points  a  way  to  take  advantage  of 
existing  opportunities  so  that  increased 
and  lasting  usefulness  may  be  attained,  and, 
what  is  more  valuable  very  often,  a  method 
by  which  the  experiences  of  the  past  can 
be  transmuted  into  "  stepping  stones  to 
higher  things  "  for  the  future. 


[8] 


CHAPTER  II 
THE  NUMBERS 

THE  numbers  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9 
go  to  make  up  a  complete  cycle  of  human 
initiation;  and  these  numbers  when  fully 
understood  can  explain  to  us  every  expres- 
sion that  is  possible  in  the  material  Uni- 
verse, whether  upon  the  mineral,  vegetable, 
animal  or  human  plane. 

Each  one  of  these  numbers  existing  as 
a  Universal  cosmic  force  is  neither  con- 
structive or  destructive,  as  all  vibration  or 
life  having  originated  from  the  One  source 
of  God- Creation  is  good;  but  they  do  ex- 
press the  forces  explained  under  the  head 
of  "  General  Characteristics "  appearing 
later  in  this  chapter. 

Therefore  it  is  well  to  dispel  from  our 
minds  the  belief  in  "  bad "  or  unlucky 
numbers  for  they  are  all  good  and  lucky 
[9] 


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in  themselves,  and  if  we  know  enough 
about  them  we  can  choose  to  keep  those 
around  us  which  more  particularly  har- 
monize with  our  own  vibrations,  bringing 
ourselves  always  into  relationships  where 
our  happiness  lies. 

It  will  be  seen  that  the  1  to  9  cycle 
includes  odd  and  even  numbers  and  one 
of  the  first  fundamentals  which  we  can 
take  into  our  understanding  is  that  the 
former  vibrate  harmoniously  to  the  in- 
tuitional, feminine  or  receptive  expressions 
and  the  even  numbers  to  the  intellectual, 
masculine,  side  of  life. 

Beyond  the  general  force  of  each  vibra- 
tion already  mentioned  there  is  constructive, 
destructive  and  negative  action,  but  these 
are  developed  by  the  life  spark  in  every 
expression  manifesting,  according  to  con- 
scious or  unconscious  choice,  the  power  of 
individual  creation. 

Man  being  the  highest  inclusion  of  vibra- 
tory law  upon  this  material  Universe  has 
the  power  to  develop  the  vibration  or  life 
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THE  NUMBERS 


principle  of  all  the  other  earth  planes  into 
constructive  or  destructive  action.  This 
law  is  seen  in  the  expression  of  two  in- 
dividuals who  will  bend  to  their  wills  the 
resources  6f  one  plane  of  life  in  entirely 
opposite  directions. 

Constructive  action  of  any  plane  is  just 
what  its  name  implies:  unfolding  and 
evolving  into  higher  usefulness.  Destruc- 
tive action  is  tearing  down  and  destroying 
existing  expression  and  through  the  neglect 
of  reconstruction  leaving  an  open  doorway 
for  entrance  of  the  third  aspect — nega- 
tivity. 

This  last  named  aspect  is  that  of  force 
present  but  unexpressed  corresponding  on 
all  planes  to  the  darkness  and  formlessness 
of  the  Universe  before  the  "  spirit  of  God 
moved  upon  the  face  of  the  waters." 

It  explains  the  human  expressions  in 
whom  we  can  discover  high  points  of  vibra- 
tion, but  who  are  occupying  positions  or 
born  into  families  where  their  possibilities 
are  repressed  rather  than  unfolded. 


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When  individuals  grow  weary  of  situa- 
tions which  do  not  really  express  them  and 
hold  day  hy  day  before  their  inner  con- 
sciousness the  vision  of  the  situations  that 
do  as  achievements  that  are  not  impossible 
to  them,  they  are  re-creating  themselves 
back  into  the  constructive  expression  of 
their  vibrations;  whereas,  through  con- 
demnation and  resistance  they  surround 
themselves  with  destructive  action,  just  as 
by  passivity  and  complete  acceptance  they 
can  remain  in  the  negative  or  stage  of 
repression. 

There  is  but  an  hair's  breadth  that  di- 
vides the  constructive  from  the  destruc- 
tive; and  this  is  so  often  spanned  uncon- 
sciously by  the  individual  who,  not  really 
destructively  inclined,  finds  so  many 
methods  of  expression  that  have  proved 
successful  for  his  own  life  that  he  uncon- 
sciously forces  these  upon  his  neighbors  and 
upon  those  who  are  under  his  charge,  with- 
out consideration  for  the  individual  de- 
velopment of  others,  from  which  it  is  a 
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short  step  to  the  continued  destruction  of 
the  freedom  of  others  and  the  destruction 
of  his  own  personal  opportunities,  owing 
to  the  avoidance  of  his  company  by  other 
of  his  fellows  who  represent  vibrations 
which  could  very  well  complement  his  own 
and  unfold  his  higher  capabilities. 

Thus  we  have  General  Characteristics  for 
each  vibration  of  1  to  9.  The  General 
Characteristics  are  seen  in  action  whether 
a  vibration  has  been  extended  into  the 
constructive,  destructive  or  negative  as- 
pects. 

We  have  also  constructive  action,  which 
is  the  extending  of  individual  vibration  into 
the  highest  expression;  destructive  action, 
which  is  the  misuse  of  man's  divine  power 
of  creation,  and  negative  action,  which  re- 
sults from  previous  destructive  action,  but 
is  the  plane  where  through  repressed  con- 
ditions man  is  often  forced  to  choose  which 
he  will  serve  and  to  build  for  constructive 
future. 

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GENERAL  CHARACTERISTICS 

1.  Creation. — All  life  or  vibration  com- 
menced with  the   1    and  therefore  where 
this  number  is  found  it  stands  for  personal 
creation  and  the  building  of  individuality. 
It   means   individualization,    self-assertive- 
ness,  self-reliance,  reasoning  and  the  facul- 
ties of  the  pioneer. 

It  cannot  be  expressed  through  too  close 
attachment  to  individuals  and  conditions 
because  it  is  the  law  of  discards  and  means 
constant  unity  with  conditions  of  adjust- 
ment, extracting  material  for  building 
higher. 

2.  Collection. — The     vibration     of    the 
mixer;  collection  of  experiences,  reflective 
rather  than  creative;  the  peacemaker;  the 
base  upon  which  broader  material  expres- 
sions   are    built   up;    responsible    for    the 
finest,  smallest  detail  the  "  bricks  "  of  all 
constructions. 

3.  Personal    Expression.  —  Self-expres- 

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sion;  adornment;  art;  criticism;  observa- 
tion. The  composite  of  1  and  2  has  there- 
fore added  to  the  1  of  personal  creation  the 
experiences  of  the  2.  Ambition;  entertain- 
ment; social  expression;  fashion;  inspira- 
tion; individual  work. 

This  vibration  is  always  necessary  to  the 
vibrations  of  1  and  2,  giving  them  complete 
expression,  and  is  of  itself  more  or  less  in- 
complete without  either  or  both  of  these 
vibrations  to  rely  on  as  an  anchor  or  basis. 

4.  Materiality. — Lack     of     inspiration; 
home;  patriotism;  fact;  endurance;  appli- 
cation;   concentration;   positiveness ;    prac- 
ticality; successful  wage-earner.     This  vi- 
bration makes  the  understanding  of  spirit- 
ual and  inspirational  subjects  difficult  and 
gives  dislike  of  social  trivialities. 

5.  Life  Experience. — This  is  a  vibration 
that    Pythagoras    himself    did    not    really 
understand   and   upon   which   modern   in- 
terpreters have  little  to  say. 

It  is  the  extension  into  a  new  cycle  of 
expression  and  stands  for  dislike  of  con- 
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trol;  eager  interest  in  life  and  living;  in- 
vestigation; research  into  metaphysical  sub- 
jects; inspiration;  optimism;  variety;  sci- 
ence; versatility;  companionship;  original- 
ity; ease;  fascination.  This  vibration  gives 
attraction  to  everything  but  is  held  by 
nothing  and  is  untrammeled  in  its  choice 
of  many  phases  of  life  expression. 

6.  Cosmic  Adjustment. — Home;  friend- 
ship; respectability;  responsibility;  care  of 
individuals;  reliability;  domesticity;  action; 
conscientiousness ;     attachment ;     morality ; 
hospitality.      It   is    the    vibration    that   is 
drawn  to  marriage  as  an  institution  and 
that  without  personal  responsibility  through 
the  care  of  other  people  will  attach  itself 
to  care  for  pets;  is  the  vibration  of  cosmic 
motherhood. 

7.  Subjective  Re-arrangement. — The  vi- 
bration of  the  finished  worker;  rest;  peace; 
alone-ness;   reflection;   worship;   reticence; 
this  vibration  is  drawn  to  dim  lights,  soft 
colors,  all  nature's  expressions  and  to  be 
rather  jealous  of  its  private  life. 

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8.  Material  Perfection. — This  vibration 
is  the  compositive  of  2,  4,  which  gives  its 
supremacy  upon  the  material  planes.     It 
gives  competence  in  all  commercial  or  ma- 
terial   problems;    judgment;    justice;    re- 
search into  spiritual  things;  dissatisfaction 
with  limited  material  conditions;  direction; 
control;  organization. 

9.  Complete    Expression.  —  Intuition; 
deeper    human    understanding;    emotion; 
sympathy;  the  extremist;  freedom  in  action 
and    thought;    unorthodox;    philanthropy; 
socialism;  disregard  of  possessions;  drama; 
tragedy;  music;  art. 

In  the  conjunction  of  3,  6  and  9  we 
have  the  complete  trinity  of  artistic  vibra- 
tion. 3  the  finer  detailed  decoration  and 
the  art  of  personal  expression  and  adorn- 
ment; 6  home  arrangement  and  decoration; 
and  9  the  expression  of  the  soul  of  art  in 
all  directions. 


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CHAPTER  III 
WHAT  THE  NAME  MEANS 

!<  WHAT'S  in  a  name?  "  is  an  expression 
that  we  often  hear  spoken  carelessly  with- 
out being  able  to  supply  a  convincing  an- 
swer. It  is  this  answer  that  NUMEROLOGY 
supplies  by  interpreting  the  true  character- 
istics in  the  expression  of  everything  that 
lays  claim  to  possess  a  name  which  is  its 
own  and  by  which  it  is  recognized  among 
men. 

In  the  name  of  anything  we  have  simply 
the  vowels  and  consonants  from  which  to 
adjudge  its  vibrations. 

The  value  of  the  consonants,  the  shell 
of  a  language,  was  first  discovered  by  Dr. 
Julia  Seton,  founder  of  the  New  Thought 
Church  and  School  (Church  of  the  New 
Civilization),  who  recognizes  that  the 
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consonants  decide  the  personality  of  the 
individual  or  thing  under  considera- 
tion. 

NUMEROLOGY  dealing  with  individuals  in 
character  analyzation  deals  with  the  bap- 
tismal name — that  is,  all  the  Christian 
names  and  surname  which  you  received  at 
baptism,  or,  if  you  were  not  baptized,  those 
which  you  were  given  by  your  parents  or 
guardians.  It  interprets  the  character  from 
three  distinct  standpoints  called  respec- 
tively: "IDEALITY,"  "IMPRESSION"  and 
"  EXPRESSION." 

The  vibration  of  the  first  is  found  from 
the  simple  addition  of  all  the  vowels  in 
your  name,  the  second  is  found  from  the 
addition  of  all  the  consonants  and  the  third 
and  last,  from  the  addition  of  both  the 
vowels  and  consonants. 

"Addition"  does  not  mean  the  adding 
up  of  the  number  of  vowels,  and  consonants 
that  appear,  but  in  adding  the  numbers 
which  will  appear  under  each  letter  of  your 
name  after  you  have  conformed  to  the 
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following  rules  given  in  "  Casting  the 
name  for  analysis." 

First,  however,  it  is  necessary  to  fully 
understand  what  the  terms  IDEALITY,  IM- 
PRESSION and  EXPRESSION  mean. 

It  is  well  known  that  there  is  a  great 
difference  between  what  an  individual  may 
look  like  in  his  personality,  how  he  may 
conduct  himself  in  every-day  expression 
and  what  he  really  is  if  we  could  get  a 
glimpse  of  the  real  inner  nature.  This  is 
the  difference  between  IDEALITY,  IMPRES- 
SION and  EXPRESSION. 

Ideality  reveals  the  character  of  our  in- 
ner nature  or  what  we  are,  Impression  tells 
what  we  look  like  through  the  vibration  of 
our  personality,  and  Expression  tells  the 
channels  which  we  choose  to  express  our- 
selves by  in  our  daily  contact  with  life. 

Our  name  is  an  exact  record  of  our  place 
in  the  cosmic  plan;  it  is  not  an  accident 
but  a  vibratory  structure  which  we  our- 
selves have  built  somewhere,  have  created, 
experienced  and  are  now  come  to  express. 
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WHAT  THE  NAME  MEANS 


Casting  a  Name  for  Analysis. — The  fol- 
lowing is  the  chart  of  Pythagoras  vibra- 
tory cycle  of  1  to  9  and  the  alphabet  ar- 
ranged into  nine  divisions. 


A 
J 

S 
1 

B 
K 
T 
2 

C 
L 
U 
3 

D 
M 
V 

"4 

E 

N 
W 
5 

F 
O 
X 

6 

G 
P 
Y 

7 

H 

Q 
Z 

8 

I 
R 

9 

The  following  example  of  preparing  a 
name  is  the  clearest  method  of  applying 
these  numbers  and  will  afford  the  utmost 
ease  in  reading  the  character  of  a  name 
after  it  has  been  practised  a  few  times. 

=         IDEALITY 

5       +       5         +          3+9  =  22  =  4  _L 

SYLVESTER       CURTIS8 
1+7  +  3  +  4     +    1+2    +    8         S    +    8+8    +    1+1  =  43  =  4+3  =  7 

+  IMPRESSION 

SYLVESTER       CURTI8S 
1+7+3+4+5  +  1  +  2+5+9  +  8+3  +  8+S+9+1  +1  =  66  =  6  +  5=  11= 

=  2  =  EXPRESSION 


In   this   example    we   have    first    dealt 
with  the  vowels  in  the  name,  placing  over 
[21] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


the  top  of  each  the  number  that  corre- 
sponds to  it  in  the  table  given.  We  have 
added  the  numbers  thus  given  together 
until  we  have  obtained  a  single  digit,  which 
has  given  us  the  Ideality. 

The  Ideality  we  have  seen  tells  the  basis 
of  the  character,  the  real  strength  of  our 
inner  ideals  and  desires;  what  we  really 
are,  as  distinct  from  anything  that  we 
may  appear  to  be.  When  a  person's  every- 
day expression,  for  instance,  is  interrupted 
by  adverse  circumstances  the  vibration 
which  is  relied  upon  for  new  inspiration 
to  rise  is  that  of  the  Ideality.  It  depends 
therefore  upon  this  vibration,  whether  the 
individual  is  really  ambitious,  religious, 
material  or  inspirational  in  the  heart  of  his 
composition,  and  when  we  see  any  individ- 
ual doing  a  big  work  in  life,  it  tells  us 
just  how  true  this  expression  is  to  the  real 
ideal  of  the  individual  or  the  motive  that 
prompts  its  continuance. 

When  the  Ideality  has  been  found,  turn 
to  its  number  in  Chapter  Five,  remember- 
[22] 


WHAT  THE  NAME  MEANS 


ing  always  that,  dealing  with  the  Ideality, 
the  explanations  given  will  correspond  to 
the  inner  ideals  or  what  it  is  desired  to 
express,  and  should  be  prefaced  with  the 
sentence,  "  You  desire  to  be." 

Referring  again  to  the  name  we  have 
cast,  we  see  that  the  consonants  were  the 
next  to  be  dealt  with,  and  that,  dealing 
with  each  consonant,  we  found  at  last  a 
final  digit,  7,  which  told  us  the  Impres- 
sion. Turning  to  the  explanations  of  the 
numbers  again  will  tell  us  the  character- 
istics which  this  individual  would  look  as 
if  he  possessed. 

A  final  reference  to  the  second  casting 
of  the  name  shows  that  both  the  vowels 
and  the  consonants  were  added  together 
until  the  final  digit  of  2  was  obtained. 

Reference  to  number  2  in  our  explana- 
tions will  tell  what  this  individual  really 
expresses  in  everyday  life. 


[23] 


CHAPTER  IV 

CONSTRUCTION  OR 
DESTRUCTION 

IT  has  always  been  a  point  in  the  in- 
terpretation of  character  by  number  vibra- 
tion, how  it  is  possible  to  tell  whether  an 
individual  has  developed  himself  construc- 
tively to  conform  to  the  constructive  side 
of  the  vibration  of  his  "  Expression "  or 
whether  he  is  living  upon  the  destructive 
and  is  misapplying  his  possibilities. 

Numerology  is  the  only  science  of  self- 
analysis  that  can  read  the  character  and 
ability  accurately  without  the  subject  being 
known  or  seen  by  the  interpreter;  and  as 
such,  it  is  finding  a  valuable  place  in  the 
world  because  of  the  fact  that  the  distance 
between  the  reader  and  the  subject  is  of 
no  account,  providing  the  full  baptismal 
name  can  be  obtained. 

[24] 


CONSTRUCTION  OR  DESTRUCTION 

Recent  revelations  through  the  mind  of 
the  author  have  disclosed  a  simple  law 
which  also  makes  the  decision  as  to  con- 
structive and  destructive  action  just  as 
easy. 

In  the  first  place,  a  study  of  vibration 
can  only  lead  to  one  conclusion  as  regards 
the  two  expressions,  one  of  which  the  world 
upholds  as  "  good  "  and  the  other  which  it 
condemns  and  often  shuns  as  "  bad." 

This  conclusion  is  that  if  all  life  is  the 
expression  of  certain  vibrations  and  these 
vibrations  are  all  rays  of  the  One  divine 
source  of  creation,  all  expression  is  good; 
but  that  the  greater  number  of  times  a  cer- 
tain number  appears  in  the  name  which  is 
the  vibratory  chart  of  an  individual,  the 
greater  intensification  shall  we  see  of  the 
action  for  which  this  number  stands. 

This  leads  us  to  understand  that  what 
is  called  constructive  action  is  where  one 
vibration  balances  or  restrains  another;  and 
what  is  called  destructive  action  or  "  bad  " 
is  sure  to  occur  where  all  vibration  is  on 
[25] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


the  one  scale  and  has  no  natural  restrain- 
ing influences  from  the  direction  of  its 
fellows  which  are  the  weaker  in  propor- 
tion. 

It  is  not  difficult  with  this  understanding 
to  discover  that  lack  of  balance  makes  a 
criminal  or  produces  an  enemy  to  society. 
Environment,  although  an  aid,  is  never  all 
to  blame  or  there  would  be  no  persons 
who  through  some  quality  within  them- 
selves have  transcended  its  limitations. 

The  cause  lies  in  the  fact  that  any  in- 
dividual, with  an  uneven  balance  of  vibra- 
tion, which  the  simple  law  of  mathematics 
will  decide  as  accurately  as  the  chemist 
separates  and  labels  his  qualities  and 
quantities,  sent  out  into  life  with  entire 
ignorance  of  himself  and  of  where  this 
lack  of  balance  will  lead,  is  certain  to  ex- 
press destructively  in  any  environment  in 
which  he  may  find  himself. 

This  explanation  has  escaped  all  but  a 
few  of  the  world's  inhabitants,  because 
everyone  is  too  occupied  looking  at,  talking 
[26] 


CONSTRUCTION  OR  DESTRUCTION 

about,  and  endeavoring  to  eliminate  effects, 
to  use  enough  commonsense  to  search  for 
the  cause,  and  in  many  cases  attempting 
to  protect  themselves  and  the  members  of 
their  families  from  these  very  effects  ex- 
pressed through  other  people,  when  within 
themselves  and  the  units  of  their  own  cir- 
cle causes  are  unconsciously  being  set  in 
motion  which  can  and  will  produce  as  dire 
results. 

Understanding  is  the  only  antidote  for 
temptation  and  violation,  and  when  the 
guardians  of  the  child  and  those  great  souls 
who  are  giving  their  lives  in  a  worthy  effort 
to  restrain  the  effects  of  impulses  and  seek 
thereby  to  uplift  the  race  will  commence 
to  understand  that  all  life  is  mathematical 
and  subject  to  the  divine  law  of  order  they 
will  have  in  their  hands  an  instrument 
which  they  can  wield  far  more  power- 
fully than  all  the  wealth  in  all  the  banks 
of  the  world  which  they  would  now  apply 
to  correction,  discipline  or  example. 

The  youth  of  our  race  is  not  led  astray 
[27] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


unless  there  is  that  weakness  in  the  in- 
dividual law  of  vibration  which  makes  fol- 
lowing easy;  and  the  only  method  of  pre- 
venting contamination  in  any  class  is  to  see 
that  where  the  weakness  is  discovered  its 
possessor  is  made  aware  of  it  before  its 
effect  is  shown,  so  that  he  or  she,  under- 
standing its  possibilities,  can  arm  and  be 
armed  effectively  against  temptation. 

The  first  and  principal  method  of  apply- 
ing this  law  to  individuals  is  to  compare 
the  digits  of  "  Ideality "  and  "  Expres- 
sion." Should  the  same  number  appear 
in  both  cases,  destructive  action  in  the 
Expression  number  or  both  is  assumed; 
should  one  number  be  even  and  the  other 
odd,  constructive  action  of  the  "  Expres- 
sion "  number  is  assured  by  the  fairly 
even  balance  that  is  obtained. 

For  example,  we  will  take  the  Idealities 
and  Expressions  of  two  individuals,  in  the 
first:  Ideality  9,  Expression  8;  and  in  the 
second:  Ideality  5  and  Expression  5. 

This  illustration  will  prove  the  law  of 
[28] 


CONSTRUCTION  OR  DESTRUCTION 

balance  which  only  numbers  can  determine 
for  the  individual  where  even  expression 
has  not  appeared. 

The  first  example  cannot  follow  the 
destructive  action  of  his  odd  Ideality  9, 
which  is  his  desire  for  self-indulgence,  and 
attraction  to  emotion,  passion,  hate  and 
selfishness,  because  his  even  number  of  8 
Expression  is  opposite  and  demands  per- 
fection and  ideal  expression  upon  the  ma- 
terial plane ;  neither  can  he  express  through 
the  destructive  side  of  his  8  Expression 
which  is  injustice  and  oppression,  because 
of  the  restraint  that  is  exercised  by  the 
humanitarian  and  sympathetic  qualities  of 
his  9  Ideality. 

Our  second  example  having  the  iden- 
tical vibration  in  the  two  most  impor- 
tant equations  of  his  character  can  be 
just  as  expressed  in  the  destructive  side  of 
this  vibration  of  5,  which  is  sex,  appetite 
and  self-indulgence,  as  his  training  and 
opportunity  may  allow. 

The  individual  who  is  living  up  to  the 
[29] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


constructive  explanation  of  his  name  vi- 
bration is  on  the  path  of  destiny;  while 
he  who  answers  to  the  destructive  aspect 
is  building  fate  or  "  karma  "  for  the  future 
which  will  cause  his  expression  sometime, 
somewhere  in  the  negative  aspect. 

Those  who  come  by  this  knowledge  may 
profit  by  it,  and  by  the  knowledge  of  their 
own  vibrations  of  Ideality  and  Expression 
and  the  comparison  of  their  expression  of 
them  with  the  explanations  that  follow  can 
adjust  themselves  constructively  into  Uni- 
versal harmony. 

The  standards  of  one  vibration  must 
n/sver  be  compared  with  the  standards  of 
another,  for  they  are  all  distinct  processes 
of  initiation  governed  by  their  own  law, 
and  necessary  steps  to  their  neighbors. 


[30] 


**' 


CHAPTER  V 
NUMBERS  IN  ACTION 

1.  Constructive  Expression — INDIVID- 
UALIZATION.  You  are  conscious  of  your 
own  importance  but  not  blind  to  the  rights 
of  others  nor  inconsiderate  of  their  opinions. 
You  ask  the  advice  of  other  people  but 
use  this  advice  only  as  an  aid  to  your  own 
opinion,  which  is,  and  should  always  be, 
dictated  by  a  feeling  of  confidence  in  your 
own  expressions.  You  choose  freely  from 
the  things  around  you  what  you  need  for 
a  more  perfect  expression  of  your  individ- 
uality, do  not  hang  on  to  any  expression 
of  individual  or  situation  too  long,  but 
discard  readily  the  things  that  you  have 
outgrown  in  order  that  you  can  pass  on 
to  higher  and  more  developed  possibilities. 
You  love  and  give  without  thought  of  re- 
turn and  make  willing  unity  with  all  con- 
[31] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


ditions  without  resistance  or  self-pity  for 
the  expressions  that  you  are  called  upon 
to  surrender. 

Destructive  Expression  —  DOMINANCE. 
You  are  egotistical,  inconsiderate  of  other 
people's  expressions  because  you  are  so 
close  to  the  personality  of  your  own  ex- 
pression. You  are  given  to  living  other 
people's  lives  for  them  by  recommending 
methods  which  you  have  found  perfect,  in- 
stead of  minding  your  own  business.  You 
worry  and  plan  too  much  about  the  con- 
ditions around  your  life  instead  of  showing 
the  more  universal  spirit  of  trust  and  faith 
and  letting  your  mind  soar  free  of  circum- 
stances. You  seek  to  hold  individuals  and 
conditions  to  your  own  personal  life  and 
surrender  them  only  with  a  good  deal  of 
resistance,  self-pity  and  remorse.  You 
give  advice  where  it  is  not  asked  and  are 
given  to  studying  the  position  and  pros- 
pects of  individuals  rather  than  their  feel- 
ings. You  are  "  I,"  "  I,"  "  I  "  all  through 
life. 

[32] 


NUMBERS  IN  ACTION 


2.  Constructive  Expression  —  DIPLO- 
MACY. You  are  tactful,  anxious  to  please, 
never  aggressive,  but  rather  wait  for  the 
opinions  of  others  before  expressing  your 
own.  You  show  yourself  willing  to  learn 
and  collect  all  the  knowledge  on  all  the 
subjects  you  hear  of,  and  to  mix  freely 
and  upon  an  apparent  basis  of  equality 
with  all  kinds  and  conditions  of  your  fellow 
beings.  You  can  place  yourself  readily 
under  the  law  of  giving  and  receiving  by 
rendering  the  smallest  service  where  asked. 
You  will  make  any  effort  for  peace  and 
will  always  act  as  the  peacemaker,  seeking 
to  appease  the  anger  of  others,  and  keep- 
ing your  own  temper  in  some  trying  cir- 
cumstances. 

You  are  individualized,  but  your  indi- 
viduality, gained  in  the  initiation  of  the  1 
vibration,  is  always  kept  in  the  background 
and  is  only  expressed  in  a  persistent  way 
and  never  dominantly. 
sThe  Destructive  Expression — INDIFFER- 
ENCE.  You  are  rather  disgruntled,  easily 
[33] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


roused  to  anger;  can  become  wilfully  de- 
structive, tearing  and  destroying  simply 
for  the  pleasure  that  destruction  affords 
you.  You  do  not  care  to  mix  and  have  no 
great  development  of  individuality.  You 
are  careless  of  your  surroundings,  the  peo- 
ple you  mix  with,  and  your  appearance, 
and  will  abide  only  by  the  standards  which 
you  set  for  yourself  from  time  to  time. 
You  make  all  kinds  of  promises  but  seldom 
fulfil  any  of  them. 

3.  Constructive  Expression — AMBITION. 
You  take  every  opportunity  that  is  offered 
for  increasing  your  self-expression  though 
always  remembering  the  principle  of  con- 
centration and  order  in  your  expressions 
and  researches.  You  are  sociable,  willing 
to  entertain  without  making  yourself  a 
spectacle  through  your  self-expression. 
You  strive  to  be  the  last  word  in  the  ex- 
pression of  your  personality  through  being 
well  dressed  and  artistic  in  your  choice  of 
dress  and  surroundings.  You  are  inspira- 
tional, not  seeking  work  with  your  hands 
[34] 


NUMBERS  IN  ACTION 


but  rather  in  the  artistic  or  expressive 
zones.  You  like  to  be  an  interesting  com- 
panion to  others  and  are  always  tolerant 
of  other  people's  errors  even  while  you  see 
these  very  quickly.  YOU  can  show  patience 
in  waiting  for  the  materialization  of  your 
creations  and  in  dealing  with  other  peo- 
ple. 

j  The  Destructive  Expression — IHTOLER- 
ANCE.  You  are  rather  selfish  and  have  not 
a  very  high  principle  and  are  not  above 
taking  any  means  to  get  what  you  want  or 
to  attain  your  ambition  of  perfected  per- 
sonal expression.  You  are  not  serious 
enough  to  perfect  yourself  fully  in  any 
accomplishment,  but  following  the  latest 
attraction  are  rather  unconcentrated,  not 
really  knowing  what  you  want  or  how  to 
get  it.  You  are  exacting  and  critical,  en- 
gaged in  an  endless  comparison  of  your 
own  expression  with  that  of  others  and 
always  disparage  yourself.  You  are  im- 
patient, feather-brained,  and  always  know 
how  everything  should  be  done  and  said 
[35] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


and  it  is  difficult  for  other  people  to  tell 
you  anything. 

4.  Constructive  Expression  —  STEAD- 
FASTNESS. You  are  governed  by  your  in- 
tellect and  reason.  You  pay  close  atten- 
tion to  detail  work  in  life  and  the  work- 
ing methods  of  the  subjects  and  objects 
which  you  meet.  You  are  seeking  to  raise 
yourself  by  a  higher  perfection  in  tech- 
nicality; you  are  ambitious  for  knowledge 
of  the  practical  useful  kind  and  to  rise  to 
a  position  of  power.  You  are  willing  to 
work,  and  study  hard  to  achieve  and  can  be 
very  painstaking.  You  are  not  interested 
in  spiritual  or  intuitional  subjects  unless 
they  can  show  practical  demonstrations, 
and  will  not  rebel  against  legitimate  con- 
trol exerted  over  you  by  other  individuals 
or  against  the  expression  of  service  in  your 
own  life.  You  are  very  honest,  reliable 
\  and  exact,  practical  and  can  obey  orders. 

Destructive  Expression  —  DISCONTENT. 
You  are  dissatisfied  with  service,  always 
consider  that  you  are  being  exploited  by 
[36] 


NUMBERS  IN  ACTION 


other  people,  a  clock-watcher  and  servant 
only  because  you  have  to  employ  your  time 
somehow.  You  aspire  to  the  higher  places 
of  control  but  will  not  work  to  prepare 
yourself  for  them.  You  are  as  good  as 
everyone  else  in  your  own  estimation  and 
always  likely  to  cause  dissatisfaction  to 
yourself  and  others.  You  pooh!  pooh! 
everything  that  you  cannot  see  the  reason 
of  at  first  glance  and  prevent  others  from 
seeking  further  along  lines  which  you  have 
rejected. 

5.  Constructive  Expression — £{£W_LIFE. 
You  are  inspirational,  inventive  and  intui- 
tional; personally  free,  a  traveler,  a  wel- 
come companion,  meeting  life  with  open 
arms,  ready  to  make  unity  with  every  ex- 
perience that  you  meet  as  a  means  for 
higher  unfoldment  and  expansion  of  your- 
self. You  endeavor  to  maintain  a  Christ- 
like  expression  by  your  universal  attitude 
to  conditions  and  through  your  versatility; 
yet  you  know  what  you  want  without  need- 
*iig  to  plan  and  prepare  for  your  goal. 
[37] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


You  rely  more  upon  the  unexpected  rather 
than  anticipate  results  and  through  faith 
and  confidence  in  your  own  quality  of  ex- 
pression are  optimistic,  fascinating,  inspir- 
ing to  others,  expressing  sympathy  with 
other  people's  troubles  and  courage  in  your 
own.  You  live  to  your  ideals  and  develop 
something  in  your  life  along  scientific  lines 
which  can  be  a  new  interest  to  you  contin- 
ually, providing  you  with  the  opportunity 
to  uplift  others. 

Destructive  Expression  —  INDULGENCE. 
You  express  through  self-indulgence  in 
sex,  appetite  and  self.  You  are  very  un- 
certain in  your  vibration,  being  very  change- 
able in  your  actions.  You  have  rather  a 
poor  moral  standard  and  yet  carry  off 
your  actions  with  a  good  deal  of  bravado 
which  disarms  many  who  would  otherwise 
condemn.  You  procrastinate,  are  not  a 
very  good  investment  as  an  employee  or 
friend,  as  you  cannot  be  depended  upon 
to  make  good  in  service  or  promises,  al- 
though you  are  always  full  of  ideas  whict 
[38] 


NUMBERS  IN  ACTION 


gain     people's     confidence.       You     resist 
change  in  the  circumstances  of  your  own 
personal  life  unless  change  is  a  matter  of 
your  own  desire,  and  destroy  your  oppor- 
tunities by  holding  on  too  long  to  things 
in  a  very  similar  way  to  the  1  vibration. 
&6.    Constructive    Expression — RELIABIL- 
\    ITY.     You  are  a  comforter  giving  willing 
/  service.     You  are  conscientious,  maintain- 

V         .  .        ,.  i  r     -      ,  . 

ing  your  own  individuality  even  in  service. 
You  have  a  great  love  of  home  and  friends 
and  family  and  do  not  wish  to  live  alone, 
nor  for  yourself  alone,  always  expressing 
cheerfulness,  never  despondent,  always  the 
busy  finisher  of  what  you  undertake  even 
though  it  is  not  always  easy  to  you.  You 
are  satisfied  with  pleasure  in  a  quiet  way 
and  are  rather  a  restful  and  cheering  in- 
fluence. 

Destructive  Expression — ANXIETY.  You 
are  too  anxious  to  serve  even  when  and 
where  you  are  not  wanted.  You  over- 
burden your  life  by  the  things  that  you 
voluntarily  take  on  to  do  for  others  and 
[89] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


are  not  such  a  restful  influence,  as  you  are 
given  to  bustle  and  to  interfere  and  unable 
to  stop  for  rest  or  relaxation.  You  sink 
your  individuality  in  service,  often  likely 
to  become  anchored  to  some  life  whose 
thoughts  and  acts  you  will  find  yourself 
copying  to  the  destruction  of  your  own 
individuality.  You  are  imposed  upon  by 
others  and  resent  it  without  seeing  the 
cause. 

7.  Constructive  Expression — PLACIDITY. 
You  are  calm,  refined  and  studious.  You 
do  not  seek  for  constant  expression  in  ob- 
jective things,  but  ask  only  the  opportunity 
to  give  something  to  the  world  as  a  priest 
would  give  it.  You  do  not  seek  to  control 
business  or  finance  which  do  not  interest 
you,  but  seek  to  develop  something  in  your 
own  life  which  can  attract  supply  to  you 
by  its  worth.  You  are  engaged  in  work 
that  takes  you  away  from  the  bustle  and 
noise  of  commerce  where  you  have  more 
opportunity  to  express  in  your  own  way, 
and  from  "  behind  the  scenes  "  as  it  were, 
[40] 


NUMBERS  IN  ACTION 


the  truths  which  you  feel  subjectively. 
Having  to  spend  much  time  alone  you  are 
not  lonely,  for  through  your  attention  to 
worship  and  introspection  you  can  easily 
find  many  interests.  You  do  not  condemn 
expressions  which  you  do  not  understand, 
but  contact  all  life  with  an  open  mind. 
You  are  a  worshiper,  a  listener  rather  than 
a  talker,  making  every  experience  of  life 
and  individuals  develop  your  subjective 
nature  and  provide  new  food  for  thought 
and  theory. 

The  Destructive  Expression — TURBU- 
LENCE. You  are  rather  difficult  to  live 
with  as  you  are  very  individualized  and 
endeavor  to  make  other  people  conform  to 
your  rather  peculiar  methods  of  expres- 
sion. You  condemn  the  things  that  do  not 
conform  with  your  theories  and  imagine 
that  you  have  more  ability  than  you  really 
have  in  the  objective  world  of  business  and 
seek  to  control,  direct  and  dictate,  ma- 
terial policy.  You  are  rather  unreasonable, 
not  able  to  rest  or  live  away  from  city  life 
[41] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


for  long  at  a  time  and  always  being  an- 
noyed by  its  inconveniences  when  you  have 
to  unite  with  it. 

8.  Constructive  Expression  —  JUSTICE. 
You  are  successful  in  commercial  expres- 
sion and  organization,  take  a  personal  in- 
terest as  far  as  possible  in  all  those  you 
find  around  you  as  employees  or  helps,  and 
while  using  these  individuals  legitimately 
to  attain  your  own  success  you  endeavor  at 
the  same  time  to  give  them  the  best  oppor- 
tunity of  perfecting  their  own  expression. 
You  are  very  even  tempered,  with  a  good 
balance  of  intuition  and  intellect,  although 
more  inclined  to  be  led  by  the  latter.  You 
have  material  freedom,  direction  and  con- 
trol; and  financial  aid  will  always  come  to 
supply  your  needs. 

Destructive  Expression  —  INJUSTICE. 
You  are  successful  in  direction  and  con- 
trol but  destructive  in  your  use  of  power, 
sweating  those  under  you  and  taking  the 
role  of  the  oppressor  and  bully  if  you  can 
serve  your  own  ends.  You  seek  to  keep 
[42] 


NUMBERS  IN  ACTION 


every  other  person  connected  with  you 
subject  to  your  individuality  and  never 
co-operate,  only  command.  You  are  un- 
scrupulous in  your  efforts  to  obtain  and 
maintain  your  personal  material  freedom. 
Your  main  ideal  in  life  is  to  have  a  greater 
expression  of  finance  than  anyone  else  be- 
cause of  the  control  that  this  can  give  you. 

9.  Constructive  Expression  LOVE. 
You  are  humanitarian,  a  philanthropist, 
regarding  all  people  of  whatever  race,  color 
or  creed  as  your  brothers;  having  the  high- 
est expression  of  impersonal  love,  sending 
out,  in  your  contact  with  others,  only  love, 
justice,  mercy,  seeking  to  make  every  man 
your  friend.  You  exercise  the  power  of 
healing  consciously  and  unconsciously  by 
speaking  the  right  word  at  the  right  time 
and  helping  people  in  their  troubles,  rely- 
ing upon  your  intuitional  faculty  more  than 
the  intellectual  reason  to  guide  you.  Real- 
izing your  power  over  all  other  human  ex- 
pressions, you  seek  to  use  this  influence 
constructively,  standing  as  a  revelator 
[43] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


through  art,  through  the  power  of  healing 
or  as  a  counsellor/  giving  willing  service  to 
humanity,  and  have  learned  to  transmute 
all  passions  into  love  and  all  personal  desire 
into  Universal  understanding.  You  are 
free  to  go  where  you  will  and  welcomed  by 
everyone.  You  do  not  care  for  personal 
possessions  and  give  freely  of  your  sub- 
stance, material  and  inspirational,  to  help 

e  world  to  more  complete  expression. 

Destructive  Expression — DESIRE.  You 
are  rather  personal  in  your  expressions  and 
desires,  making  distinctions  between  classes 
of  human  beings  which  extend  far  past 
their  ordinary  expressions.  You  use  de- 
structively to  gain  your  own  ends  and  for 
your  own  self-satisfaction  the  power  which 
you  have  over  the  human  emotions,  by 
taking  advantage  of  the  confidences  you 
gain  from  others  in  business,  love  or  friend- 
ship. You  play  upon  the  emotions  of 
your  own  and  other's  compositions  because 
of  the  fascinating  interest  which  this  affords 
and  can  easily  express  in  anger,  violent 
[44] 


NUMBERS  IN  ACTION 


and  blasting  passions  and  personal  love 
and  raise  these  in  others  at  will.  In  this 
expression  you  use  the  power  of  dramatic 
speech  and  emotional  expression  destruc- 
tively and  know  how  to  wound  by  your 
words  as  no  other  vibration  does,  biting 
in  your  sarcasm,  aggravating  and  pas- 
sionate. 

pThis  is  the  most  destructive  expression 
even  according  to  Universal  standards,  for 
in  it  homes  are  laid  desolate,  hearts  broken, 
trusts  betrayed  and  individuals'  lives  sur- 
rounded with  dead  ashes  of  memory  and 
physical  wastes  of  disease. 

NOTE — It  is  more  usual  to  find  in  the 
interpretation  of  character  by  numbers, 
that  individuals  correspond  to  a  few  con- 
structive and  a  few  destructive  explana- 
tions and  the  author's  intention  is  that  by 
being  acquainted  with  the  two  possibilities 
of  our  own  vibrations  we  can  readily  tell 
when  in  our  everyday  expression  we  cross 
the  line  between  them. 

[45] 


CHAPTER  VI 
NEGATIVE  ACTION 

As  the  explanations  given  below  are  fol- 
lowed it  will  not  be  difficult  to  interpret 
the  expressions  of  many  individuals  whom 
one  meets  continually  in  a  day's  living  and 
is  rather  at  a  loss  to  understand  the  pur- 
pose of  their  life. 

The  man  who  shines  your  shoes,  the 
woman  who  scrubs  your  floors  may  both 
be  above  the  plane  upon  which  they  are 
living,  possessed  of  powerful  vibrations 
which,  although  sensed  by  us  through  the 
indications  of  their  personality,  are  to  them 
as  yet  unknown  and  undiscovered  in  this 
incarnation. 

Again,  this  aspect  of  vibration  explains 

the  artist  born  into  an  inartistic  family; 

the   individuals   who    are   entitled    by   the 

quality  of  their  vibration  to  material  free- 

[46] 


NEGATIVE  ACTION 


dom  and  yet  living  in  circumstances  where 
to  obtain  the  cost  of  every  meal  is  a  strug- 
gle. It  is  the  explanation  that  so  many 
wonderful  constructive  mental  inspirational 
and  material  creations  are  born  from  the 
minds  of  those  who  are  kept  to  an  invalid 
chair  for  the  better  part  of  their  lives. 
The  physical  limitation  upon  all  planes 
is  the  negative  inaction  which  is  the  pay- 
ment for  former  destructive  living  out  of 
vibration;  but  here  the  higher  self  is  often 
doubly  awake  to  the  constructive  possi- 
bilities of  life  and  reveals  these  possibilities 
to  others  by  wonderful  transcended  expres- 
sions of  the  mind.  The  quality  of  such 
expression  has  been  so  intensified  in  many 
cases  that  the  individuals  have  transmuted 
the  physical  limitation  of  the  present  life 
and  become  once  more  four-square  with 
expression  of  body  and  spirit.  In  this 
action  of  the  law  of  vibration  the  world 
sees  a  miracle  of  healing,  its  newspapers 
write  of  the  circumstances,  but  the  in- 
dividual knows  only,  that  prayers,  visions 
[47] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


and   constructive   building   have   come   to 
expression. 

Everyone  in  any  stage  of  negativity  is 
given  this  chance  to  work  back  into  con- 
structive expression  and  to  regain  the  in- 
heritance which  they  have  forfeited  some- 
time, somewhere. 

1.  Limitation. — Individuals    who     have 
little  backbone  in  life,  ready  to  perform 
the  meanest  service.     Often  seen  as  those 
people  who  one  is  certain  could  do  higher 
work  in  life  than  what  they  are  engaged  in, 
if  they  could  only  be  raised  to  a  conscious- 
ness of  themselves.     Victims  of  their  own 
destructive  law  in  the  past,  these  individ- 
uals are  very  often  seen  as  blind,  deaf  or 
afflicted   in   some   way,    where    they   have 
never  had  an  opportunity  in  this  life  to 
assert   individuality   or   to   be   self-reliant, 
but    have    always    been    dependent    upon 
others. 

2.  Dependence. — Lacks    the     force    to 
gain  very  much  for  itself.     Has  very  few 
individual  opinions  and  readily  reflects  the 

[48] 


NEGATIVE  ACTION 


ideas  and  expressions  of  the  people  around 
it.  Is  too  easily  persuaded  into  doing 
meaner  work  for  other  people;  is  seldom 
contented  but  feels  the  burden  of  life  and 
living  rather  heavily.  While  it  is  not  dis- 
gruntled, does  not  feel  the  urge  to  mix 
with  others. 

T  3.  Repression. — Will  not  or  cannot  take 
advantage  of  the  opportunities  offered  to 
express  the  self,  in  artistic  or  any  other 
lines.  Unconcentrated ;  undecided,  cannot 
make  up  their  mind  to  any  one  expression, 
but  taking  up  many  things,  doing  a  little 
of  one  and  a  little  of  another.  Victims  of 
their  own  destructive  law  in  the  past,  are 
seen  with  the  desire  to  express,  but  in  an 
environment  where  accomplishment  and 
higher  development  is  impossible  to  them; 
led  by  circumstances  to  engage  in  unsuit- 
able, technical  work. 

4.    Lack  of  Ambition. — Just  mechanical 

workers,  working  because  they  have  to  live 

and  not  for  their  personal  advancement  in 

any  way.    Not  a  very  high  development  of 

[49] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


intellect,   asking   only  the  opportunity  to 
work  and  live  from  day  to  day. 

5.  Crucifixion. — Always  seen  to  be  fight- 
ing some  little  "  fox  in  the  vines  "  or  some 
subtle   craving   for   self-indulgence    which 
it  is  hard  to  rise  above.     Has  a  good  deal 
of  surrender  of  the  things  which  it  values 
most,  many  times  because  of  the  little  in- 
dulgences which  it  lacks  the   strength  of 
itself  to  overcome.     Financial  loss  and  ne- 
gation to  include.     These  individuals  are 
often  pictures  of  their  destructive  self-in- 
dulgence of  the  past,  through  devitalized 
bodies,  disease  and  deformity. 

6.  Irihospitality. — Unwilling    to    serve; 
refuses  responsibility  through  the  care  of 
individuals  and  situations.    Is  not  so  eager 
to  associate,  but  more  given  to  live  alone 
in  perfect  detachment  from  other  people. 
Rather  despondent,  tired  through  service, 
leaving  other  people  and  conditions  to  take 
care  of  themselves. 

7.  Misunderstanding. — Feel  always  un- 
able to  express  anything  that  they  feel  in 

[50] 


NEGATIVE  ACTION 


their  inner  nature,  consider  that  no  one 
wants  them  or  understands  them,  and  that 
they  have  never  had  a  chance.  Victims  of 
their  destructive  law  in  the  past,  are  seen 
to  be  surrounded  with  many  responsibilities 
and  relationships  from  which  they  find  it 
hard  to  be  free,  and  which  prevent  them 
from  gaining  that  opportunity  to  be  alone 
which  is  so  necessary  to  their  unfoldment. 
8.  Failure. — Unsuccessful  in  speculation. 
Find  it  difficult  to  gain  the  prestige  which 
they  feel  themselves  capable  of,  in  the  busi- 
ness world.  Victims  of  their  destructive 
law  of  the  past,  are  seen  to  be  born  into  a 
family  and  to  live  in  an  environment  where 
there  is  lack  of  material  expression  instead 
of  freedom,  where  money  is  scarce  and 
where  they  have  to  give  the  meaner  ex- 
pressions of  service. 

\  9.  Emotion. — Full  of  contradictory  vi- 
brations; too  easily  moved  by  the  things 
that  appeal  to  the  emotional  nature.  Un- 
dermine their  expression  by  being  over 
generous  and  take  the  troubles  of  others 
[51] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


to  themselves,  weeping  with  those  that 
weep,  giving  to  all  who  ask,  even  beggaring 
themselves.  Have  lost  the  power  of  using 
other  people  either  for  good  or  bad,  and 
are  imposed  upon  by  others  freely.  Un- 
able to  obtain  much  for  themselves  as  they 
are  torn  this  way  and  that  by  the  force  of 
their  own  vibrations. 


[52] 


CHAPTER  VII 

WHAT  THE  BIRTH  DATE 
INDICATES 

As  in  Astrology,  the  date  of  a  person's 
birth  plays  a  very  important  part  in  char- 
acter delineation  by  Numerology. 

The  baptismal  Name  of  an  individual 
tells  what  the  soul  has  included  in  the 
past  and  what  it  is  qualified  to  express  in 
the  present,  but  the  vibrations  of  the  day, 
month  and  year  of  birth,  indicate  what 
has  next  to  be  included. 

The  Number  gained  by  the  addition  of 
the  vibrations  of  the  birth  date  denotes 
exactly  the  initiation  which  it  is  to  the 
individual's  highest  good  to  include  in 
harmonious  adjustment.  It  undoubtedly 
constitutes  the  greatest  attracting  force  of 
a  life,  being  responsible,  as  it  is,  for  the 
conditions  among  which  the  person  finds 
[53] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


himself  from  time  to  time.  It  attracts  the 
cities  and  countries  in  which  he  lives,  his 
companions  and  positions,  and  shows 
clearly  the  possibility  there  is  of  expressing 
himself  in  the  way  he  desires  and  of  attain- 
ing his  ideals.  Whatever  forces  are  shown 
on  the  PATH  OF  LIFE  as  the  vibrations  of 
birth  are  called,  will  have  to  be  met  and 
included  whether  harmoniously  or  other- 
wise, for  they  constitute  the  inclusion  of 
certain  lessons  which  the  soul  wishes  to 
express  in  a  future  life. 

The  method  for  determining  the  vibra- 
tion of  the  Path  of  Life  is  very  simple — 
the  calendar  number  of  the  month  is  placed 
underneath  whichever  month  opens  the 
date  of  birth,  this  is  followed  by  the  addi- 
tion of  the  numbers  in  the  day  and  in 
the  year,  as  follows: 

August       2  +  8       1+84-9  +  1  =  Ang.  28,  1891 

g       +1+0+         1+9  =  19=  10  =  1  PATH  OF  LIFE 

To  aid  one  to  understand  better  what  in- 
fluence THE  PATH  OF  LIFE  will  have  upon 
the  expression  of  an  individual,  and  whether 
[54] 


WHAT  THE  BIRTH  DATE  INDICATES 

the  life  will  be  easy  or  difficult,  Numer- 
ology compares  it  with  the  vibration  of 
the  EXPRESSION,  and  whenever  we  see  this 
duplicated  as  the  digit  of  the  PATH  OF 
LIFE,  we  may  know  that  the  individual 
will  have  little  to  contend  with  in  life;  for 
instance,  an  EXPRESSION  4,  on  a  PATH  OF 
LIFE  vibrating  4,  would  not  be  expected 
to  meet  anything  which  could  not  be  easily 
overcome,  as,  although  it  might  meet  some 
conflicting  influences  under  the  separate 
vibrations  of  the  month,  day  and  year  of 
the  birth  date,  it  is  strongly  connected 
through  life  with  its  own  force. 

This  is  the  path  of  Self-perfection  where 
the  soul  has  the  opportunity  to  round  off, 
as  it  were,  the  inclusion  of  a  former  lesson. 

There  are  many  individuals  found  with 
a  PATH  OF  LIFE  weaker  in  vibration  than 
their  EXPRESSION,  and  these  people  are 
always  connected  with  expressions  of  life 
and  people  who  are  beneath  them.  What- 
ever they  attain  is  the  result  of  their  own 
efforts  and  not  of  opportunities  and  privi- 
[55] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


leges  they  meet  in  life.  Their  complaint 
is  that  they  are  withheld  from  the  oppor- 
tunities their  soul  desires;  but  did  they  but 
realize  it,  there  is  no  force  in  their  life 
strong  enough  to  withhold  them  from  any- 
thing, except  that  which  they  express  from 
their  own  inclusion.  They  meet  nothing 
stronger  than  themselves  and  are  always 
prepared  for  emergencies. 

This  is  the  path  of  the  teacher,  revelator 
and  messenger,  rather  than  that  of  the 
student,  and  is  the  opportunity  the  soul 
takes  to  express  centuries  of  inclusion. 

Lastly,  there  is  the  individual  whose 
PATH  OF  LIFE  is  found  to  be  higher  than 
the  vibration  of  the  EXPRESSION,  and  this 
life  is  always  climbing  to  make  itself  equal 
with  the  many  splendid  opportunities  it 
meets.  This  is  the  most  difficult  of  the  two 
PATHS  OF  LIFE,  for  the  individual  must 
always  hug  his  ideals  close  to  his  heart  and 
take  care  that  there  are  no  false  steps. 
It  is  the  path  of  experience,  and  gives 
influential  friends,  position  and  opportunity. 
[56] 


WHAT  THE  BIRTH  DATE  INDICATES 

This  PATH  OF  LIFE  is  the  indication  that 
the  soul  has  been  true  in  the  past,  and  as 
a  reward  is  given,  in  the  present,  new 
worlds  to  conquer. 

The  golden  rule  for  the  harmonious  in- 
clusion of  the  lesson  of  the  PATH  OF  LIFE 
is  adjustment;  and  in  order  to  help  us  to 
apply  this  law,  we  should  understand  that 
it  is  the  purpose  of  every  individual  only 
to  intensify  the  characteristics  of  the  PATH 
OF  LIFE. 

The  essence  of  the  lesson  of  each  vibra- 
tion with  the  corresponding  "  watchwords  " 
are  as  follows: 

1.  Creation  Watchword — UKITY 

2.  Construction  Watchword — SERV-"* 

3.  Expression  Watchword — PEACE 

4.  Materiality  Watchword — SERVICE 

5.  Experience  Watchword — UNITY 

through  NOK-RESISTANCE 

6.  Attachment  Watchword — LOVE  and  SERVICE 

7.  Subjective  Development  Watchword — PEACE 

8.  Material  Perfection  Watchword — SERVICE 

9.  Complete  Expression  Watchword — UNIVERSAL 

LOVE 

If  the  individual  will  find  which  of  these 
Numbers  correspond  with  the  vibration  of 
[57] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


his  PATH  or  LIFE  he  has  the  principle  and 
its  "  watchword,"  which  together  form  the 
key  to  his  happiness,  and  that  which  will 
help  him  to  understand  how  to  overcome 
by  adjustment  the  obstacles  he  meets. 

READING  THE  BIRTH  DATE 

In  reading  the  Birth  date,  we  take  up 
first  the  final  digit,  the  number  1  in  the 
above  case,  and  understand  that  this  vibra- 
tion and  everything  it  means  to  us  in  our 
explanations  of  the  individual  vibrations  is 
the  main  lesson  which  this  life  has  come  to 
include. 

Secondly,  we  divide  roughly  the  Birth 
date  into  three  cycles  of  time,  making  the 
calendar  number  of  the  month  occupy  the 
first,  the  digit  of  the  day  the  second  and  the 
digit  of  the  year  the  third,  with  the  under- 
standing that  although  the  experiences  indi- 
cated by  all  the  numbers  will  follow  the  in- 
dividual all  through  life,  those  coming  under 
the  vibration  of  the  month  will  be  more  evi- 
[58] 


WHAT  THE  BIRTH  DATE  INDICATES 

dent  until  25  years  of  age,  those  indicated 
by  the  day  from  25  to  50  years,  and  those 
under  the  year  for  the  remainder  of  the 
life. 

It  is  thus  possible  to  explain  many  of 
the  initiations  that  we  are  meeting  more 
strongly  at  the  particular  age  in  which 
we  are  expressing  and  enables  us  to  come 
nearer  to  the  understanding  of  our  attitude 
to  life  than  we  have  been  able  to  do  pre- 
viously. 

Finally,  we  find  the  essence  of  the  Path 
of  Life  by  finding  its  final  digit  in  the  table 
given  and  the  watchword  which  is  indicated 
as  helping  us  to  unfold  its  highest  possi- 
bilities. Example. 

August  2+8  1893 
8  1+0  2+1 
8+  1+  3  =  1  +  2=3  Path  of  Life. 

25  years  25-50    50 

When  the  Path  of  Life  vibration  has  been 
dealt  with  thus,  read  the  constructive  ex- 
planation of  its  final  digit,  3  in  our  ex- 
[59] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


ample,  prefacing  the  reading  with  the 
sentence,  "  you  have  come  to  learn  to  be  " ; 
read  next  the  constructive  explanation  of 
the  particular  cycle  number  our  life  is  in 
at  the  time  of  reading  according  to  our 
present  age.  These  explanations  will  be 
found  in  Chapter  Five. 


[60] 


CHAPTER  VIII 

CHANGING   THE   NAME— SIGNA- 
TURES—CHOOSING  NAMES 

THE  name  which  we  receive  at  birth  has 
been  proved  to  be  an  exact  indication  to 
our  character  and  our  ability  in  this  life. 
It  has  also  been  seen,  however,  that  this 
name  from  the  vibratory  standpoint  does 
not  always  relate  us  in  the  best  possible 
attitude  to  the  lessons  we  came  to  learn 
as  shown  from  the  PATH  OF  LIFE. 

By  changing  our  name,  therefore,  we  ad- 
just ourselves  more  favorably  to  the  ex- 
periences which  we  are  bound  to  meet  in 
this  life,  giving  ourselves  a  better  chance 
of  success.  It  is  a  revelation  sometimes, 
if  we  will  just  glance  over  the  "  materials  " 
at  our  disposal  in  this  life  and  try  to  see 
whether  we  have  used  or  are  using  them 
in  a  way  that  will  enable  us  to  build  the 
[61] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


finest  "  house  "  according  to  the  plan  laid 
out  over  our  PATH  OF  LIFE. 

In  choosing  a  new  name  for  ourselves 
or  in  adjusting  the  one  which  we  are  al- 
ready entitled  to,  there  are  several  impor- 
tant but  simple  rules  to  be  considered : 

1.  To  choose  a  name  that  in  its  final 
digit  is  along  the  same  zone,  either  odd  or 
even,  as  our  own  name  vibrations,  i.e.,  if 
our  own  name  is  numbered  upon  the  odd 
side  to   choose   a   signature   with  an   odd 
digit. 

2.  To  choose  a  name  that  in  the  individ- 
ual digits  is  harmonious.    Names  that  have 
a  final  digit  made  up   of  odd  and  even 
digits  are  not  harmonious,  such  as  1  +  6 
+  7  =  5,  as  such  an  expression  has  to  be 
put  along  two  lines,   odd  and  even,   and 
there  must  be  a  separation  of  energy. 

8.  To  choose  a  name  that  in  its  final 
digit  is  in  the  same  zone,  odd  or  even,  as 
the  PATH  OF  LIFE  vibration,  as  this  leads 
the  life  to  development  in  the  right  di- 
rection. 

[62] 


CHANGING  THE  NAME 


The  effect  of  changing  the  name  and  of 
signing  a  new  signature  is  to  bring  around 
us  different  influences  and  conditions  by 
intensifying  in  our  life  the  force  which  is 
seen  as  its  digit. 

The  use  of  a  capable  knowledge  of 
how  to  change  the  name  is  of  great  far- 
reaching  result,  for  it  is  often  seen  that 
in  the  signature  is  the  explanation  of  cer- 
tain conditions  which  are  provoking  us. 

It  is  not  advisable  to  advocate  the  whole- 
sale changing  of  names  for  yourself  or 
others  after  this  knowledge  is  included,  as 
all  life  is  initiation  and  the  signature  intensi- 
fying certain  experiences  gives  us  undoubt- 
edly certain  initiations  which  cannot  be 
ignorantly  interrupted.  There  is  one  infal- 
lible indication  that  the  signature  should  be 
changed  and  this  is  when  its  bearer  is  dis- 
satisfied with  its  form,  is  unhappy  under 
certain  conditions  and  is  willing,  without 
knowing  what  will  happen,  to  allow  the  sig- 
nature to  be  changed.  Such  an  individual  is 
ready  to  be  lifted  out  into  new  experiences. 
[63] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


The  change  of  name  only  very  slightly 
affects  our  Ideality,  is  more  apparent  in 
the  change  which  it  gives  to  our  Impres- 
sion and  most  of  all  is  seen  to  affect  our 
Expression,  bringing  out  in  our  everyday 
life  just  the  qualities  which  its  vibration 
stands  for:  1.  Individuality  and  self-reli- 
ance. 2.  Diplomacy  and  association.  3. 
Perfected  personal  Expression.  4.  Tech- 
nicality and  attention  to  little  material 
things.  5.  Change  and  versatility.  6.  Re- 
sponsibilities, care  of  individuals.  7.  Alone- 
ness,  reflection,  misunderstanding  in  ma- 
terial things.  8.  Direction  and  control, 
material  freedom.  9.  Generosity,  emotion, 
art. 

SlGNATUBES 

The  signature  of  a  stranger,  upon  a  let- 
ter or  elsewhere,  can  tell  us  quickly  the 
characteristics  which  the  individual  is  in- 
tensifying and  the  vibration  through  which 
he  is  attempting  to  gain  a  higher  unfold- 
ment  for  himself. 

[64] 


CHOOSING  NAMES  FOR  CHILDREN 

Consideration  of  the  signature  of  a  mar- 
ried woman  determines  the  initiation  which 
her  marriage  has  placed  her  life  under  and 
will  be  found  to  explain  the  new  experi- 
ences which  have  been  included  since  its 
adoption. 

The  individual  who  will  get  the  most 
accurate  reading  of  the  signature  is  the 
one  who  is  given  to  intensify  one  way  of 
signing  the  name,  for  where  so  many  dif- 
ferent signatures  are  used,  the  conditions  of 
the  life  are  more  subject  to  change  and 
less  easy  to  determine  as  distinct  experi- 
ences. 

CHOOSING  NAMES  FOE  CHILDREN 

Naturally  such  a  knowledge  of  vibration 
as  NUMEROLOGY  provides,  will  lead  us  on 
to  the  question  of  how  to  name  our  chil- 
dren, and  in  this  extension  there  are  some 
very  interesting  and  definite  findings. 

Numerology  does  not  advocate  the  choos- 
ing of  the  name  of  a  child  by  a  person  out- 
[65] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


side  of  the  parents,  because  it  looks  upon 
the  consciousness  of  the  child  as  simply  an 
extension  of  the  consciousness  of  its  father 
and  mother.  Therefore,  it  believes  that 
with  the  parents  should  rest  the  choice  of 
a  name  and  that  this  choice  should  be  made 
according  to  harmony  in  sound.  Tone  is 
a  much  finer  scheme  of  vibration  than  num- 
bers, and  if  the  sound  of  a  name  is  har- 
monious to  the  parents  of  a  child,  that  child 
and  its  name  invariably  possesses  the  char- 
acteristics of  its  parents,  but  in  different 
relationship,  and  stands  revealed  to  the  one 
who  understands  human  vibration,  as  a 
correct  extension  of  the  consciousness  that 
attracted  it. 

When  a  child's  name  has  been  chosen  in 
this  way,  one  who  understands  the  law  can 
step  in  and  by  their  knowledge  explain 
along  what  lines  the  child  should  be  de- 
veloped, forecasting  the  experiences  that 
it  will  meet. 

This  method  of  naming  children  is  not 
indorsed  in  any  other  system  as  far  as  is 
[66] 


CHOOSING  NAMES  FOR  CHILDREN 

known,  because  most  teachers  prefer  to 
demonstrate  their  science  by  choosing  the 
name  according  to  their  own  individual 
idea  of  an  harmonious  name,  forgetting 
that  there  is  a  danger  of  thus  interfering 
with  the  experiences  which  the  child  may 
have  come  to  get  in  this  life.  Seldom  is 
it  that  any  attempt  is  made  either,  to  choose 
a  name  which  contains  the  vibrations  of 
the  parents,  and  the  neglect  of  this  is  the 
cause  of  great  estrangement  in  the  future, 
for  the  child  develops  out  of  harmony  with 
its  parents,  even  though  it  may  be  under 
the  law  of  harmony  according  to  abstract 
vibration. 

It  will  be  readily  seen  that  this  method 
of  dealing  with  the  names  of  children  does 
not  detract  in  any  way  from  the  usefulness 
of  Numerology,  but  only  insures  the  really 
correct  choice  of  a  name  by  the  parties  who, 
typifying  the  consciousness  which  attracted 
the  ego,  are  most  qualified  to  identify  and 
extend  themselves  through  its  expression. 

The  name  of  the  child  should  be  chosen 
[67] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


before  birth,  as  this  has  been  proved  to 
have  the  effect  of  causing  the  birthday  of 
the  child  to  adjust  itself  in  vibration  more 
harmoniously  with  the  name  chosen,  insur- 
ing for  the  incoming  ego  an  easier  life  in 
which  so  much  adjustment  is  not  needed. 


[68] 


CHAPTER  IX 
HARMONIOUS  ASSOCIATION 

PERHAPS  the  most  severe  of  life's  initia- 
tions are  handed  to  us  over  the  line  of 
association,  for  it  is  difficult  to  find  any 
individual  who  cannot  recall  that  at  some 
stage  of  their  life  they  have  allowed  them- 
selves to  become  linked  in  important  re- 
lationships which  have  proved  to  be  pro- 
ductive of  disagreeable  experiences. 

In  many  instances  a  separation  from 
these  relationships  has  been  effected  and 
in  the  degree  that  many  important  lessons 
were  learned  we  can  label  the  chapter 
"  good." 

Yet  again,  there  are  still  many  individ- 
uals who  remain  in  these  unsatisfactory  re- 
lationships, passing  up  day  by  day,  to  the 
best  of  their  understanding,  the  proofs  of 
endurance  which  will  claim  their  release. 
[69] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


Experience  is  a  hard  master  if  a  thor- 
ough one,  but  the  object  of  the  enlightened 
truths  which  are  slowly  forcing  their  way 
through  the  religious  education  of  our  day, 
is  the  promise  that  the  time  is  not  far  dis- 
tant when  all  will  learn  their  human  lessons 
by  the  easier,  if  more  rapid  way  of  trans- 
mutation or  the  true  understanding  of  the 
experiences  with  which  the  life  is  linked 
and  the  wisdom  which  will  make  for  con- 
scious choice  for  the  future. 

To  help  this  time  forward  is  one  of  the 
aims  of  Numerology,  which  teaches  many 
laws  for  selection  in  human  association 
which  are  just  as  definite  and  simple  as 
those  which  it  offers  for  the  interpretation 
of  the  mystery  of  the  individual  Self,  and 
of  which  the  following  are  examples. 

We  have  found  from  the  previous  chap- 
ters that  the  numbers  of  the  Ideality,  Ex- 
pression and  PATH  OF  LIFE  are  tlie  most 
important. 

Therefore,  to  find  the  planes  of  complete 
harmony  and  happiness  in  all  associations, 
[70] 


HARMONIOUS  ASSOCIATION 

it  is  only  necessary  to  make  a  comparison 
of  these  vibrations  in  our  own  and  another's 
Number- scope. 

Every  day  we  meet  individuals  to  whom 
we  are  immediately  drawn  by  a  force  which 
although  hard  for  our  human  minds  to 
analyze,  is  nevertheless  above  the  consid- 
eration of  sex,  worldly  position,  class  or 
creed;  in  other  words,  they  are  friends  be- 
fore we  hardly  realize  the  fact  that  they  are 
"  recent  acquaintances." 

A  comparison  of  our  numbers  would 
show  that  the  "  Expressions  "  (the  number 
we  obtain  from  the  addition  of  the  vowels 
and  consonants  in  the  baptismal  name) 
are  identical. 

The  new  civilization  fundamental  of 
"  Life  in  the  Long  Run,"  applied  through 
vibration,  shows  these  individuals  as  com- 
panions of  a  former  life  when  the  vibration 
which  is  now  expressed  by  both  was  being 
experienced  or  learned  as  the  number  of 
The  Path  of  Life. 

It  is  not  always  that  such   individuals 
[71] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


whom  we  meet  thus,  become  really  im- 
portant to  us  by  closer  relationship  of  love, 
marriage  or  business;  because  the  har- 
mony which  we  feel  is  more  the  result 
of  the  past  than  a  certainty  of  the  present 
or  promise  for  the  future,  and  is  sufficient 
only  to  insure  good  fellowship  and  to  help 
us  recognize  an  harmonious  friend. 

For  the  deeper  associations,  the  individ- 
uals with  whom  we  can  obtain  lasting  har- 
mony, must  have  vibrations  which  are  at- 
tuned to  our  Ideality — our  inner  nature; 
we  can  prove  this  is  so  by  a  comparison  of 
our  own  Ideality  number  with  that  of  any 
individual  who  we  know  is  really  in  sym- 
pathy with  our  deeper  thoughts,  visions 
and  ideals  and  has  proved  their  willingness 
to  stand  with  us  for  their  development, 
apart  from  how  opposite  to  our  expression 
this  individual  may  be,  or  how  far  removed 
from  our  personal  life. 

It  is  in  Ideality,  therefore,  that  the  real 
plane  of  understanding  in  love,  marriage 
and  business  lies;  and  complete  happiness 
[72] 


HARMONIOUS  ASSOCIATION 

and  confidence  in  either  association  is  im- 
possible unless  harmony  in  this  vibration 
obtains. 

There  are  many  associations  contracted 
by  parties  whose  Ideality  numbers  are  not 
the  same,  but  in  these  instances  it  is  more 
the  plane  of  tolerance  than  of  complete 
understanding  and  a  certain  kind  of  com- 
promising harmony  can  be  maintained  by 
each  individual  refraining  from  the  display 
of  the  deeper  nature  with  all  its  personal 
visionings,  hopes  and  ideals.  The  ideals 
of  those  finding  themselves  in  such  rela- 
tionships and  not  knowing  the  law  of  vi- 
bration, are  daily  crucified  and  sacrificed 
upon  the  altar  of  misunderstanding  and 
resistance,  whereas  a  knowledge  of  such 
truths,  and  what  is  more  important,  their 
discovery  when  the  association  is  young, 
can,  and  does  bring  happiness  upon  the 
planes  of  harmony  that  caused  the  associa- 
tion to  be  born  in  the  first  place. 

In  business  partnerships,  the  Ideality 
numbers  play  again  as  important  a  part, 
[73] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


for  the  true  success  of  the  relationship 
here,  rests  with  each  individual  who  repre- 
sents the  organization,  having  the  same  in- 
terests at  heart. 

'  The  house  divided  against  itself  "  that 
cannot  stand,  is  the  business  that  has  two 
or  more  partners  who,  however  much  agree- 
ment or  distinct  individual  ability  they 
may  show  in  expression,  misunderstand  the 
common  ideal,  or  are  grinding  the  personal 
axe.  This  is  invariably  the  case  when  the 
numbers  of  the  individual  Idealities  are 
opposite  in  value. 

When  through  a  little  practice  with  the 
methods  suggested,  we  are  able  for  our- 
selves to  find  the  vibrations  of  a  full  bap- 
tismal name,  and  meet  with  a  person  whose 
Expression  number  is  our  own  Path  of  Life 
number,  we  can  know  that  here  is  an  in- 
dividual who,  however  casually  met,  will 
occupy  an  important  association  in  our  life ; 
because  all  things,  including  persons,  that 
vibrate  to  our  Path  of  Life  number  are 
expressing  on  their  own  plane  the  lesson 
[74] 


HARMONIOUS  ASSOCIATION 

we  have  come  to  learn  and  therefore  stand 
in  the  relation  of  our  greatest  teachers, 
whether  they  themselves  realize  it  or  not. 

The  associations  thus  formed  as  a  result 
of  this  attraction,  although  always  impor- 
tant are  not  always  productive  of  the  most 
complete  harmony,  but  a  comparison  again 
of  the  numbers  of  the  individual  Idealities, 
will  forecast  accurately  in  such  cases  how 
the  relationship  will  develop. 

When  we  meet  such  individuals  who  are 
vibrating  in  "  Expression  "  to  our  "  Path 
of  Life,"  it  is  difficult  for  us  to  be  content 
with  the  lighter  associations.  It  is  there- 
fore only  the  knowledge  of  where  the 
promise  of  lasting  harmony  can  be  found 
that  when  we  find  "  Ideality "  vibrations 
opposite  in  value  that  we  can  assert  our 
knowledge  and  choose  to  avoid  the  closer 
partnership  which  is  being  forced  upon  us. 

Inharmony  is  found  where  one  "Ideality" 
is  an  odd  number  and  the  other  an  even. 

Harmony,  where  both  "  Idealities  "  are 
the  same  number. 

[75] 


CHAPTER  X 
CHOOSING  A  LIFE'S  WORK 

IT  is  well  known  that  the  subject  of 
choosing  a  vocation  is  a  world-wide  prob- 
lem. At  some  time  or  another  it  has 
claimed  the  attention  of  the  head  of  every 
family  for  one  or  more  of  its  members 
commencing  the  climb  toward  personal 
achievement. 

Advice  upon  this  problem  is  attempted 
by  every  science  and  teacher  claiming  to 
possess  knowledge  in  advance  of  the  gen- 
eral understanding  of  the  average  person 
and  still  there  are  thousands  who  have 
never  been  guided,  thousands  who  have 
been  guided  wrongly,  and  millions  of  fail- 
ures every  year. 

We  have  read  "  Success  is  the  product 
of  success  methods  and  failure  the  product 
of  failure  methods." 

[76] 


CHOOSING  A  LIFE'S  WORK 


There  are  some  failure  methods,  so 
fine,  however,  that  it  is  only  the  trained 
psychologist  who  can  discern  and  adjust 
them,  and  although  they  are  all  productive 
of  destruction  they  are  lost  beside  the 
greatest  of  all  failure  methods  which  it 
hardly  needs  a  psychologist  to  observe, 
viz. :  the  individual,  doing  the  wrong  work, 
in  the  wrong  way,  in  the  wrong  place. 

It  is  this  failure  or  its  varying  degrees, 
that  Numerology,  or  the  Science  of  Num- 
bers, can  adjust  into  harmony  and  which 
should  receive  the  personal  attention  of 
every  individual  engaged  in  anything  at 
all,  today. 

It  is  not  always  possible  or  easy  to  live 
our  lives  by  psychology,  because  the  laws 
which  are  recommended  by  the  science  are 
new  to  the  race  understanding;  but  it  is 
an  hopeless  attempt  for  the  one  who  is 
unfamiliar  with  the  first  psychiatry  of  all 
— the  Psychology  of  the  Self. 

The  mind  of  man,  the  master  mind  of 
the  Universe,  containing  the  power  to 
[77] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


operate  and  control  every  law  of  the  earth 
plane,  is  such  an  adjustable  thing  that  a 
suggestion  for  better  understanding  com- 
ing from  an  outside  source  can  be  received, 
accepted  and  acted  upon. 

It  is  of  this  faculty  that  "  efficiency  "  ex- 
perts who  work  with  objective  methods  take 
advantage  and  develop,  so  that  in  time  an 
individual  can  be  taught  to  disregard  his 
own  opinion  and  become  an  automaton 
with  senses  trained  to  detect  the  slightest 
error  in  his  own  or  another's  way  of  doing 
things. 

Such  work  is  good  but  not  best,  neither 
does  it  make  for  true  efficiency  which  is, 
after  all,  only  conscious  subjective  and 
objective  unity  with  the  thing  we  do. 

We  have  seen  that  every  mind  is  a  store- 
house of  knowledge,  gained  from  certain 
experience  in  many  lines  of  expression  in- 
cluded sometime,  somewhere.  This  knowl- 
edge is  recorded  in  .  the  individuality  and 
personality  of  the  present  life;  it  can  be 
read  by  numerous  signs  and  symbols  set 
[78] 


CHOOSING  A  LIFE'S  WORK 


in  the  form  and  it  is  hidden  in  every  letter 
of  the  name. 

We  have  no  patience  with  the  man,  who 
having  a  balance  in  the  bank,  is  starving 
upon  half  a  loaf  and  denying  himself  the 
necessities  of  life.  Yet  day  after  day 
around  us,  ninety  per  cent  of  men  and 
women,  feeling  dimly  the  consciousness  of 
certain  ability  within  themselves,  never  even 
consult  the  cosmic  pass-book  of  the  Self, 
to  unfold  the  treasures  accumulated,  but 
think  to  attain  success  by  favoring  systems 
which  train  them  to  make  the  daily  half 
loaf  of  objective  doing,  go  the  farthest. 

We  do  not  need  to  spend  time  and  money 
developing  man's  efficiency  by  methods  that 
take  into  account  what  he  can  be  made 
to  do  before  what  he  can  do. 

With  knowledge  you  can  graft  a  pear 
and  apple  tree,  but  it  is  not  natural  law; 
with  the  same  knowledge  you  can  graft  the 
expression  of  a  machinist  on  to  the  mind 
of  an  artist,  without  having  the  wisdom 
to  see  that  the  consciousness  of  the  artist 
[79] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


will  not  accept  and  still  continues  to  vibrate 
in  its  own  current. 

Efficiency  grafting  is  good  knowledge 
and  so  is  the  gardener's  kind;  they  both 
show  a  step  in  progress;  but  they  are  less 
than  the  wisdom  that  considers  the  law  of 
evolution. 

It  is  true  that  by  such  methods,  twenty- 
five  per  cent  efficiency  is  unfolded  into 
fifty  or  even  seventy-five  per  cent;  but  the 
efficiency  shoe  pinches  between  this  point 
and  the  one  hundred  mark.  You  cannot 
walk  with  it  into  the  place  where  success 
sits  and  feel  comfortable  and  certain — it 
is  made  on  the  wrong  last. 

On  every  plane  of  earth's  expression 
the  law  of  usefulness  exists,  but  to  be  suc- 
cessful, each  unit  must  be  scientifically 
related  to  its  work  in  life. 

Individuality  is  a  great  factor  in  the 
success  of  the  individual  and  this  factor  is 
only  seen  where  the  work  expresses  the 
consciousness  of  its  doer  and  is  the  active 
result  of  something  deeper  than  training. 
[80] 


CHOOSING  A  LIFE'S  WORK 


Our  work  in  life  should  be  an  inborn 
habit,  not  a  trick  that  we  have  acquired. 

Even  when  we  have  found  our  individ- 
uality we  have  one  other  obstacle  to  remove 
from  the  path  of  success  and  this  is  the 
old  idea  of  competition. 

The  old  world  leaves  its  cradle  to  enter 
the  game,  trained  to  move  on  the  board  of 
life  to  the  advantage  of  himself  and  the 
temporary  disadvantage  of  those  engaged 
in  apparently  the  same  line  of  expression. 
The  new  world  enters  the  race  with  all 
thought,  energy  and  action,  concentrated 
around  himself  and  his  own  point  of  ex- 
pression, not  because  he  is  selfish  or  even 
egotistical,  but  because  he  knows  that  he 
occupies  a  niche  in  life  which,  as  he  under- 
stands better,  will  hold  all  the  success  he 
needs  and  such  success  as  only  he  himself 
can  ever  take  away. 

Competition  is  like  the  dummy  race- 
horses which  for  a  penny  can  be  manipu- 
lated over  the  track  of  a  glass-covered 
machine.  The  red  and  the  green  advance 
[81] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


alternately,  the  race  is  short  and  sharp,  the 
result — wrist-ache  for  the  players  and  the 
horses  back  at  first  position.  It  is  the 
enemy  of  physical  fitness,  youth,  temper 
and  ideals  and  the  friend  of  breakdown, 
insanity,  old  age  and  despondency. 

The  only  individuals  to  whom  competi- 
tion is  a  truth  are  they  who  are  being 
called  successes  and  even  complimented 
for  their  efficiency,  who  in  their  heart 
know  that  they  are  failures  because  they 
stand  self-revealed  through  two  selves:  one 
trained  to  the  minute  to  conform  to  ob- 
jective laws  of  the  work  in  which  they 
are  engaged,  and  the  other,  wishing  and 
building  perhaps  for  some  other  thing 
which  the  more  expresses  them. 

These  are  they  who  always  need  the 
vacations  to  gather  together  enough  energy 
to  resume  their  necessary  efforts  to  hold 
on  to  something  which  is  not  theirs,  to 
dodge  the  reality  of  competition  and  to 
cover  up  from  the  world  and  their  asso- 
ciates the  insecurity  of  their  position.  They 
[82] 


CHOOSING  A  LIFE'S  WORK 


do  not  succeed  in  deceiving  themselves,  but 
knowing  not  how  to  help  themselves,  they 
persist  year  in  and  year  out,  until  perhaps 
through  the  study  of  sciences  that  can 
accomplish  their  freedom,  or  just  through 
the  resistance  they  have  offered  to  life,  they 
are  lifted  out  where  they  can  make  anew 
the  situations  of  their  life. 


[83] 


CHAPTER  XI 
WHAT  AND  HOW 

THE  purpose  of  this  book  is  to  give  prac- 
tical aid  in  seeking  objective  and  sub- 
jective success,  first  in  discovering  that 
quality  which  tells  what  we  are  gifted  to 
do  and  secondly  in  showing  how  we  can 
get  this  gift  the  more  easily  out  into  ex- 
pression. 

Numerology  has  some  very  definite  and 
well-defined  laws  for  this  purpose,  just 
as  clear  and  accurate  when  skillfully  applied 
as  the  figures  which  it  uses  in  interpreta- 
tion. 

It  believes  that  both  the  what  and  the 
how  of  an  individual's  life  work  are  con- 
tained in  the  letters  and  numbers  of  the 
full  baptismal  name  which  we  dealt  with 
in  Chapter  III  as  telling  the  individual's 
character. 

[84] 


WHAT  AND  HOW 


The  number  that  corresponds  with  the 
"  Ideality  "  shows  what  effort  we  are  cap- 
able of  putting  our  whole  selves  into  and 
it  is  from  the  quality  of  this  vibration  ac- 
cording to  the  following  table  that  we  can 
decide  which  aspect  of  business,  religion, 
art,  etc.,  we  can  adopt  upon  which  to 
build  up  the  structure  of  our  life's  work. 

IDEALITY  TABLE 

Ideality  No. 

1.  CREATIVE — Mental. 

2.  CONSTRUCTIVE — Mental   and   physical. 

3.  EXPRESSIVE — Inspirational. 

4.  TECHNICAL — Mental  or  physical. 

5.  SCIENTIFIC — Inspirational. 

6.  EDUCATIONAL — Mental. 

7.  THEORETICAL — Inspirational. 

8.  COMMERCIAL — Mental. 

9.  ARTISTIC — Inspirational. 

The  numbers  1,  3,  5,  7,  8,  9  in  Ideality 
give  the  desire  and  the  ability  to  work 
in  all  occupations  which  their  relative  "  Ex- 
pressions "  may  decide,  in  individual  free- 
dom; this  can  be  taken  advantage  of  pro- 
viding the  Path  of  Life  vibrations  as  found 
[85] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


in  Chapter  VII  are  in  harmony  with  the 
"  Expression." 

On  the  other  hand,  Idealities  of  2,  4,  6, 
do  not  have  to  claim  individual  effort  in 
the  occupation  for  which  their  "  Expres- 
sion "  may  suit  them  unless  the  Path  of 
Life  vibration  in  conjunction  with  them 
is  of  the  1,  3,  5,  7,  8,  9  vibrations. 

For  example,  we  will  take  an  illustra- 
tion of  an  Ideality  of  7  which  is  the  theo- 
retical inspirational  quality  desiring  and 
having  ability  for  individual  effort.  In 
choosing  a  successful  work  for  such  an  in- 
dividual we  would  have  to  satisfy  ourselves 
that  in  any  particular  occupation  which 
his  "  Expression "  might  decide,  he  had 
the  opportunity  to  express  his  theories 
which  would  probably  be  of  a  literary  or 
religious  nature. 

When  we  have  claimed  conformity  with 
that  inner  quality,  seen  from  the  vibration 
of  "  Ideality,"  the  next  step  is  to  find  the 
objective  channel  or  occupation  through 
which  it  can  be  developed  and  expressed  to 
[86] 


WHAT  AND  HOW 


conform  with  the  requirements  of  our 
modern  world. 

The  "  Expression "  vibration  of  the  in- 
dividual decides  this  very  necessary  ques- 
tion and  tells  whether  business,  art,  com- 
merce, etc.,  should  receive  our  efforts. 

The  following  table  gives  the  zone  of 
each  Expression  number  and  a  few  of  the 
vocations  which  agree  with  them  and  it  is 
a  simple  matter  for  each  reader  to  deter- 
mine to  which  zone  any  particular  occupa- 
tion which  we  have  no  room  to  enumerate 
here,  but  which  he  favors  for  adoption, 
conforms. 

Expression  No. 

1.  CREATION — System.  Analysis.     Invention. 

2.  CONSTRUCTION — Diplomacy.     Politics. 

3.  PERSONAL     EXPRESSION — Individual     art.       Adornment. 

Criticism. 

4.  MATERIAL      CONSTRUCTION  —  Technicality.        Planning. 

Building. 

5.  SCIENCE — Salesmanship.       Experimenting.       Pioneering. 

Advertising. 

6.  EDUCATION — Domesticity.     Responsibility.     Teaching. 

7.  THEORY — Literature.     Religion. 

8.  COMMERCE — Organization.        Management.        Valuation. 

Direction. 

9.  UNIVERSAL    EXPRESSION — Art.     Entertainment.      Philan- 

thropy.    Music.     Healing. 

[87] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


We  can  cite  an  illustration  of  the  com- 
bination of  the  vibration  of  Ideality  and 
Expression  in  the  choice  of  a  vocation 
as  follows: 

Ideality  7,  Expression  1— Subjective, 
theoretical  inspirational  ideals  expressed 
through  a  creative  mental  occupation — for 
example,  literature. 

Again,  an  individual  with  Ideality  5  and 
Expression  4  should  engage  in  a  physical, 
technical  occupation  that  expressed  his 
scientific  inspirational  ideality;  example — a 
surgeon. 

Another  individual  with  Expression  9 
and  Ideality  8  could  choose  an  occupation 
of  Universal  Expression,  art,  entertain- 
ment, etc.,  so  long  as  the  commercial  men- 
tal ideals  were  revealed  through  its  ex- 
pression and  the  common  mistake  in  such  a 
combination,  that  of  attempting  to  work 
solely  as  the  artist,  was  not  made. 

Remember  that  there  are  just  nine  num- 
bers or  vibrations  to  deal  with  and  by  know- 
ing the  nature  of  any  occupation  and  find- 
[88] 


WHAT  AND  HOW 


ing  the  numbers  of  your  Ideality  and  Ex- 
pression it  is  quickly  seen  where  and  how 
a  correct  choice  can  be  made  to  insure  the 
perfect  combination  between  the  special 
quality  of  the  Ideality  with  the  ability  of 
the  Expression. 

It  will  be  readily  understood  that  the 
lack  of  perfect  understanding  of  these  two 
distinct  vibrations  causes  a  great  deal 
of  ill  adjustment;  but  that  understood,  they 
are  the  infallible  means  of  harmony  be- 
tween what  we  desire  to  do  and  how  we 
can  actually  do  it. 

The  combination  of  artist  and  business 
man,  for  instance,  is  not  a  rare  one,  but 
how  to  develop  such  dual  ability  into  har- 
monious success  and  usefulness  is  a  neg- 
lected part  of  the  world's  education. 


[89] 


CHAPTER  XII 
COMPLETE  ADJUSTMENT 

IN  order  to  have  complete  success,  it  is 
not  even  enough  that  individuals  should 
do  the  work  for  which  they  are  fitted 
according  as  we  have  seen  to  the  perfect 
combination  of  Ideality  and  Expression  vi- 
bration; but  also,  that  they  should  develop 
this  work  to  the  people  who  will  appreciate 
them  and  -their  efforts  and  in  the  environ- 
ment which  helps  them  to  increase  their 
usefulness  and  happiness  and  fulfills  the 
purpose  of  their  life. 

The  almost  complete  ignorance  of  how 
to  decide  this  very  natural  law,  by  the 
sciences  which  are  better  known  to  the 
world  as  competent  to  choose  vocations,  is 
a  great  factor  in  the  dissatisfaction  of  in- 
dividuals with  their  positions  in  life  and 
often  the  main  cause  which  keeps  them  out 
[90] 


COMPLETE  ADJUSTMENT 


of  the  recognition  which  their  development 
really  merits. 

Many  times  a  man  who  has  successfully 
worked  for  an  organization,  doing  work 
for  which  he  is  well  fitted,  is  taken,  by 
the  nature  of  his  firm's  business,  all  over 
the  country  and  brought  into  relation  with 
a  certain  class  of  individuals.  A  time 
comes  perhaps  when  this  man  feels  that  he 
would  like  to  set  up  for  himself  in  the 
same  line  of  business,  but  by  the  nature 
of  his  own  plans  he  eliminates,  accidentally 
perhaps,  the  class  of  individuals  to  whom 
he  has  formerly  expressed,  or  puts  himself 
into  positions  that  cannot  include  the  ex- 
tensive travel  which  his  former  position 
made  necessary. 

He  finds  after  a  short  while  that  he  can- 
not make  a  success  of  his  own  venture, 
and  is  compelled  to  work  again  in  asso- 
ciation which  he  does  not  prefer.  He 
many  times  condemns  his  own  lack  of 
ability  for  his  failure,  or  perhaps  calls  it 
"  bad  luck,"  when  the  law  of  vibration 
[91] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


will  and  does  show  him  that  the  whole 
reason  was  that  he  did  not  know  that  a 
certain  class  of  individuals,  conditions,  and 
environment  were  more  necessary  to  his 
success  than  another. 

For  another  illustration,  we  can  consider 
the  case  of  two  men,  both  perfect  salesmen, 
trained  and  capable  of  promoting  business 
in  the  same  organization. 

According  to  a  science  of  character 
analysis  we  place  these  two  men  in  almost 
identical  positions  with  some  big  house 
having  two  vacancies  in  their  retail  sec- 
tion. We  allow  only  in  our  choice  for  the 
little  difference  in  the  two  temperaments. 

We  have  assured  ourselves  previously 
that  both  are  capable  of  that  quality  of 
salesmanship  which  can  deal  with  the  many 
different  classes  of  buyers  that  will  come  in 
for  attention  and  we  are  at  first  gratified  to 
see  that  each  man  shows  satisfactory  re- 
turns. / 

In  a  little  while,  however,  it  is  observed 
that  one  of  these  two  men  is  showing 
[92] 


COMPLETE  ADJUSTMENT 


fatigue,  finding  his  work  more  irksome  and 
feeling  it  more  difficult  each  week  to  keep 
up  in  his  sales  and  general  attentiveness 
with  his  companion. 

Perhaps  he  is  told  that  he  has  been 
working  too  hard  and  an  opportunity  to 
rest  is  gladly  afforded,  but  such  an  act 
only  seems  to  delay  the  day  when  he  feels 
unable  to  continue  his  work  and  loses  finally 
the  appreciation  of  his  talent  which  his 
employers  were  at  first  so  ready  to 
acknowledge. 

.What  has  happened?  He  cannot  have 
lost  his  usefulness  as  a  salesman,  because 
all  the  laws  of  character  analysis  have  de- 
clared that  he  is  fitted  for  the  work.  No, 
he  should  not  do  other  work;  for  his  talent 
still  remains  in  the  line  in  which  he  has 
been  engaged,  simply  waiting  for  the  recog- 
nition that  he  has  been  developing  it  in  the 
wrong  environment.  He  has  been  rowing 
up  instead  of  down  the  stream  of  his  use- 
fulness. He  is  fit,  trained  to  the  minute 
to  control  the  craft  in  which  he  has  been  sail- 
[93] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


ing,  but  just  unaware  that  there  was  any 
particular  river  on  which  to  launch  it  that 
led  more  directly  than  another  to  the  sea 
of  success. 

Each  of  these  two  men  had  minds  pro- 
ductive of  thoughts  which  were  real  things 
capable  of  making  success  or  failure.  The 
first  found  the  right  environment  in  which 
his  set  of  thoughts  about  himself  and  his 
work  could  be  unfolded  and  developed  into 
harmonious  growth,  and  the  other  found 
the  atmosphere  to  which  he  was  not  attuned 
and  could  not  develop  happiness  or  even 
energy  to  perform  the  tasks  for  which  he 
was  really  fitted. 

Outside  in  the  big  world  perhaps,  doing 
the  same  work  but  with  a  different  class 
of  conditions  and  individuals,  where  he 
could  learn  to  break  new  ground  day  by 
day  and  week  by  week,  he  could  have  un- 
folded his  talents,  instead  of  having  sup- 
pressed them,  until  he  found  a  conscious- 
ness of  his  place  in  the  sun  as  great  as  that 
of  his  companion. 

[94] 


COMPLETE  ADJUSTMENT 


It  is  here  that  we  apply  the  understanding 
of  our  Path  of  Life  vibration  as  found  in 
Chapter  VII,  as  this  dictates  just  the  kind  of 
people  who  can  appreciate  us  the  most,  just 
the  atmosphere  in  which  we  should  express 
ourselves  and  just  the  conditions  that  must 
be  conformed  with  even  in  the  work  for 
which  our  temperament  and  ability  have 
fitted  us,  if  we  would  have  that  "  four- 
square "  feeling  to  life,  which  is  superior 
to  limitation  or  the  circumstances  of  the 
moment. 

"Where?"  and  "To  whom?"  then,  are 
just  as  important  questions  as  "  What  can 
I  do?  "  and  "  How  can  I  do  it?  " 


[95] 


CHAPTER  XIII 
WHERE  AOT)  TO  WHOM 

WE  have  seen  that  the  existence  of  the 
Path  of  Life  vibration  is  the  reason  why 
so  many  individuals  are  linked  with  people, 
conditions  and  situations  which  they  do  not 
understand  and  so  often  make  the  mistake 
of  resisting. 

All  the  while  there  remain  these  people, 
conditions  and  situations  with  which  our 
lack  of  understanding  is  developing  us  out 
of  harmony,  just  so  long  is  it  logically  to 
be  expected  that  our  complete  success  will 
keep  away  from  us,  even  though  we  may 
have  found  the  work  we  love  and  are 
fitted  to  accomplish. 

Each  individual  is  living  for  something 
higher  than  to  express  continually  the  likes 
[96] 


WHERE  AND  TO  WHOM 


and  understandings  of  his  own  nature  and 
reject  all  expressions  that  do  not  conform 
to  his  ideals. 

To  the  one  who  knows  this,  the  very 
feeling  of  dislike  is  a  signal,  that  here  is 
something  that  he  does  not  understand  and 
while  he  cannot  readily  accept  such  ex- 
pressions as  his  own,  yet  realizing  that  there 
is  "  good  in  everything,"  he  inquires  of 
science  how  he  can  make  the  adjustment 
to  bring  this  good  to  the  surface,  and 
whether  it  is  an  expression  which  he  needs 
to  include  for  his  perfect  success  in  this 
life. 

No  matter  what  occupation  one  might 
he  fitted  for,  if  the  Path  of  Life  number 
was  6,  he  would  have  to  express  to  the 
great  mass  of  people  coming  in  the  do- 
mestic, active  and  responsible  zone  and  in 
order  to  gain  complete  success,  to  comply 
in  the  nature  of  his  expression  with  such 
conditions  as  these  individuals  would  de- 
mand and  appreciate. 

The  following  example  is  sufficient  to 
[97] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


prove  the  value  of  the  adjustment  which 
Numerology  attempts. 

A  young  woman  possessing  marked  ar- 
tistic, dramatic  and  musical  abilities  was 
trained  for  a  number  of  years  until  she 
was  declared  proficient  to  enter  the  operatic 
stage.  Everyone,  including  professionals, 
remarked  upon  the  quality  of  her  work — 
but  that  was  all,  usually.  The  opportuni- 
ties she  received  never  amounted  to  any- 
thing worth  while.  She  came  to  the 
Author  one  day  with  the  question,  "  What 
is  the  matter  with  me?" 

There  was  never  anything  the  matter 
with  her  or  her  ability  as  an  artist;  she  had 
simply  developed  this  ability  entirely  as 
dictated  by  her  high  ideals  which  were  fos- 
tered by  her  parents;  and  in  utter  igno- 
rance that  there  was  a  special  field  of 
endeavor  waiting  for  her,  she  chose  an  ex- 
pression that  only  appealed  to  the  mi- 
nority. 

A  glance  at  her  Path  of  Life  vibration 
revealed  the  fact  that  the  masses  and  not 
[98] 


WHERE  AND  TO  WHOM 


the  classes  were  waiting  for  her  revela- 
tion, ready  to  hand  her  the  success  which 
she  deserved. 

This  lady  acted  upon  the  advice  that 
was  given  her;  took  a  course  of  instruc- 
tion in  work  that  could  reveal  her  ideal 
the  more  clearly  to  those  individuals 
whom  she  was  in  this  life  to  inspire 
and  today  is  on  the  way  to  occupy  one 
of  the  first  places  among  motion  picture 
players.  She  sees  success  ahead  and  is 
not  dissatisfied  with  the  expression  of  her 
ideal. 

What  an  understanding  for  so  many  with 
business  abilities  even,  trained  in  definite 
assured  lines,  who  have  never  gained  any 
appreciable  measure  of  success,  to  know 
that  it  may  all  be  that  they  are  appealing 
to  a  class  of  individuals  and  in  an  atmos- 
phere dictated  it  is  true  by  their  own  likes 
and  dislikes,  but  where  they  and  the  quality 
of  their  work  will  never  be  appreciated; 
or  perhaps  they  have  developed  their  talents 
along  lines  that  can  never  bring  the  full- 
[99] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


est   measure   of  success   on   the   material 
plane. 

Below  is  a  summary  of  the  vibrations 
1  to  9  as  they  are  to  be  interpreted  when 
they  appear  as  the  Path  of  Life  vibra- 
tion. They  tell  the  zones  in  which  and 
the  class  of  people  to  whom  we  have  to 
express  that  work  which  we  have  chosen 
as  our  own. 

1.  Should  work  unassociated  with  others, 
as  pioneers;  or  if  associated,  endeavor  to 
appeal    to    individuals     rather    than     to 
masses,    developing    individuality.      Make 
work  understandable  to   creative,   mental 
individuals. 

2.  Should  work  associated  with  others, 
appealing  to  the  masses  rather  than  in- 
dividuals, developing  collection  and  experi- 
ence in  dealing  with  the  finer  side  of  ma- 
teriality and  with  less  developed  individuals. 

3.  Should  work  unassociated  with  others, 
appealing  to   individuals  rather  than  the 
masses,  developing  perfected  personal  ex- 
pression, making  the  individual  work  ac- 

[100] 


WHERE  AND  TO  WHOM 


ceptable  to  social,  inspirational  and  artistic 
individuals. 

4.  Should    work   in   association    rather 
than  unassociated,  appealing  to  the  masses 
rather  than  to  individuals;  developing  con- 
struction, order,  arrangement. 

5.  Should  work  unassociated  with  others, 
appealing  to  scientific,  resourceful,  inven- 
tive individuals  and  those  who  are  expres- 
sing personal  freedom,  rather  than  to  the 
masses. 

6.  Should    work    in    association    with 
others,  appealing  to  the  domestic,  respons- 
ible masses  rather  than  to  individuals.    De- 
veloping usefulness. 

7.  Should  work  unassociated  with  others, 
appealing  to  individuals  that  are  attracted 
to  theories,  rather  than  the  masses.     De- 
veloping study  and  reflection. 

8.  Can  work  either  in  association  or  or- 
ganization or  unassociated;  should  appeal 
to  both  masses  and  individuals  of  the  com- 
mercial and  intellectual  zones.    Developing 
material  perfection. 

[101] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


9.  Can  work  either  in  association,  or 
unassociated ;  appealing  to  both  masses  and 
individuals  of  the  artistic,  emotional  and 
inspirational  type.  Developing  complete 
expression. 


[102] 


CHAPTER  XIV 
CONCLUSION 

ALL  nature  is  scientific.  It  expresses 
in  order  by  divine  law  and  there  is  nothing 
of  the  waste  of  energy  that  is  found  to  be 
the  cause  of  such  ill  adjustment  on  the 
human  plane. 

One  individual  has  an  ideal,  but  meas- 
uring himself  and  it  by  the  environment 
and  the  minds  around  him,  he  surrenders 
it  more  or  less  as  an  impossibility  for 
him. 

Another  is  attracted  to  adopt  a  certain 
vocation  because  as  he  has  seen  others  ex- 
press it,  it  is  agreeable  to  him;  he  finds 
however  that  the  ideal  back  of  this  ex- 
pression is  foreign  to  him  as  he  has  learned 
to  interpret  himself. 

Yet  another  is  allowing  his  likes  and 
[103] 


WHAT'S  IN  YOUR  NAME? 


dislikes  to  dictate  the  plane  upon  which  he 
is  expressing  his  ideal  and  ability  and  day 
by  day  he  is  resisting  true  Opportunity, 
because  he  does  not  approve  of  the  style 
of  her  dress. 

In  all  these  very  human  instances  there 
is  that  separating,  isolating  influence  that 
will  always  make  success  an  uncertainty 
and  the  only  way  to  eliminate  the  misunder- 
standing is  to  get  back  to  order — God's 
first  law  in  the  Universe. 

The  great  notions  of  a  little  child  are 
only  developed  and  made  possible  through 
its  initial  lessons  of  A,  B,  C,  and  1,  2,  3, 
and  in  the  same  way,  our  own  great  no- 
tions about  ourselves  and  success  are  only 
made  possible  by  the  understanding  of  the 
A,  B,  C,  of  ourselves  and  our  relation  to 
life. 

"  Except  ye  become  as  a  little  child  .  .  ." 
has  many  interpretations;  but  certainly, 
except  we  use  the  little  child's  first  princi- 
ple of  mathematics,  we  can  never  tabulate 
accurately  the  zone  of  our  ideals,  the  chan- 
[104] 


CONCLUSION 


nel  through  which  they  should  be  expressed, 
or  decide  through  figures  "  that  cannot 
lie"  the  Path  of  Life  that  leads  to  com- 
pleteness. 


[105] 


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